Landfill Search For Missing Airman Corrie McKeague Resumes

The search for the missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague has resumed.

It is 13 months since the airman disappeared while on a night out in Suffolk - and so far there has been no trace of him.

Police have already spent five months searching the Milton landfill site in Cambridgeshire, and have today restarted the search at a different part of the same site known as 'cell 22'.

Detectives still believe the most plausible explanation for Corrie McKeague's disappearance is that he fell into or fell asleep in a rubbish skip, which was ultimately taken away and crushed.

The search of 'cell 22' is likely to last up to six weeks.

A Suffolk police spokesman says waste disposal is not a precise science and difficult to gauge, which is why they need to look again:

"Careful re-checking of the data available to the Major Investigation Team has concluded the area of the original 20-week search is still the location where there was the highest likelihood of finding Corrie.

"However, the nature of waste disposal and its movement is not a precise science, hence the requirement to extend the search."

Corrie’s mother, Nicola Urquhart, spoke about her determination not to give up on the search for her son on the 12-month anniversary of his disappearance.

Corrie McKeague, who was based at RAF Honington, was last seen in Bury St Edmunds on September 24, 2016.

Cover image: PA.