Corrie's Mum Opens Up On Landfill Search: This 'Roller Coaster Is Torture'

The mother of missing RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague says the search of a landfill site for her son's body has been an emotional roller coaster.

It has been eight weeks since the search of the landfill site in Cambridge has started, but Nicola Urquhart fears they are searching in the wrong area:

"We all thought Corrie would have been found by now, or at least they would have found the rubbish (...) But because they never found the rubbish, it doesn't look like they've been in the right place so far."

Nicola says that "waiting every day for that phone call" has been a roller coaster comparable to torture. 

Officers have already gone through hundreds of tonnes of rubbish, and the search could be extended beyond the original 10 weeks planned.

Police have been searching the site after it emerged a bin lorry of interest to the investigation was carrying a heavier load than first thought.

Initial information revealed the bin, collected on the day Corrie vanished, weighed 11kg.

That was later corrected to 116 kg, prompting the search of the location where the rubbish ended up.

There's been no trace of the RAF gunner since he disappeared after a night out in Bury St Edmunds on the 24th September last year.

He was last spotted on CCTV entering a refuse collection area in the town at 3.25 in the morning. 

Suffolk Police, who have been responsible for the search, have been heavily criticised by the public and former detectives.