Bones found in bin bags not those of Fife man
● Airman went missing while on a night out in Bury St Edmunds in 2016
Bones found inside t wo bin bags i n a Suffolk river are not those of missing airman Corrie Mckeague, his mother has said.
Nicola Urquhart said she had been “trying to keep a sensible head on” while police were unable to reassure her that human remains found in the River Stour in Sudbury last Thursday were not those of her son. But she said Suffolk Police have since contacted her to say the remains are not Mr Mckeague.
Ms Urquhart, writing on the Find Corrie Facebook page, said: “We don’t know who this person is, but we do know it’s someone’s son or daughter and they will be devastated.
“I hope and pray that Suffolk MIT are able to identify who this person is for the family that have been left behind.
“Please remember though that although I am writing this
as Corrie’s mum, and I now know this is not my son, it is a murder investigation.
“If anybody knows anything, was in the area at the time, has CCTV or dash cam footage please contact Suffolk MIT.”
Mr Mckeague, from Dunfermline in Fife, was 23 when he vanished on a night out in Bur y St Edmunds, around 16 miles north of Sudbury, on 24 September 2016.
He was stationed at RAF
Honington and no trace of him has been found.
The black bags of human bones had been recovered from the River Stour in Sudbury, Suffolk, on 27 August.
Detective Chief Superintend
ent Eamonn Bridger said the remains were the body of a man of “athletic or muscular build”.
“Unfor t unately we know that it’s not a complete body and indeed our current belief is that that individual had been dead for some time before the disposing of in the river and the recovery,” he said.
Officers completing houseto- house inquiries have spoken to the residents of more than 100 properties so far.
A Home Office post- mortem examination conducted on Sunday was not able to establish a cause of death.
The man had been dead for a “minimum of months”, Mr Bridger said, adding: “It’s too early to say more specifically than that.”
Poli c e are app e al i ng f or witnesses who were i n the area where t he bags were recovered.
The investigation into Mr Mckeague’s disappearance was passed to cold case detectives in 2018.
Suffolk Police said the “most likely scenario” is that Corrie went into a bin, which was emptied into a lorry and ended up in the waste process.
Police have previously sifted through thousands of tonnes of waste i n t he t wo areas where it was most likely for Mr Mckeague to have ended up.