Missing airman ?is in landfill? | News | The Times & The Sunday Times
New evidence suggests that an RAF gunner who went missing last year ended up in a bin lorry and was dumped at a landfill site.
Corrie McKeague, 23, from Dunfermline, disappeared during a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on September 24. The airman, based at RAF Honington, was seen on TV going into a refuse collection area behind a branch of Greggs, the bakery chain. Police soon discovered that the signal from his mobile phone corresponded with the movement of a Biffa lorry that picked up the contents of a Greggs wheelie bin.A search of the lorry, however, found nothing and Biffa initially said that only 11kg of rubbish had been collected.
Mr McKeague’s mother, Nicola Urquhart, 48, a family liaison officer for Police Scotland, wrote on Facebook yesterday that more than 100kg of waste had been taken. “This can really devastatingly only mean one thing,” she said. A Biffa employee who was arrested when the error was found faced no further action, police said, adding that he had made a genuine mistake.
Ms Urquhart said she had accepted that her son was dead and on the landfill site. “I can only pray that Corrie is found quickly and that we are able to get answers as to how this could have happened,” she said.