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Family's Emotional Plea For Missing RAF Man To 'Get In Touch'
The uncle of an RAF serviceman who went missing on Saturday after a night out has called for him to "get in touch".
Speaking to Forces TV Tony Wringe said that Corrie McKeague’s disappearance has been "hard" for the family, who have been questioning "all the different things that could have happened" to the 23-year-old, who was last seen in Bury St Edmunds a few miles from his base at RAF Honington in Suffolk.
It comes as the search for Corrie shifted its focus to the busy A134 road linking Bury St Edmunds to RAF Honington. One theory is that he could have been hit by a vehicle while walking along the road in the dark and thrown into the undergrowth.
Suffolk Constabulary have confirmed that Corrie's mobile phone along with his debit and credit cards have not been used since he disappeared.
Mr Wringe, who is himself an armed forces veteran, asked Corrie to get in touch:
"If it’s for any reason that you’re now AWOL, it’s a storm in a tea cup. We’ve all been there. We’ve all done dumb stuff in our service time but in a fortnight from now this will just be a bar story. So get in touch. We can chat it through, we’ll work it out and we’ll fix it but get in touch."
He described his nephew as a "very happy-go-lucky, friendly guy".
"This is entirely out of character. Corrie is so connected to his family, to his brothers, to his friends and to the guys that he serves with. It's entirely out of character."
"It’s hard to deal with the uncertainty, that’s the most difficult. When it is so out of character for somebody that’s so outgoing and so connected to his family to just vanish… you start to question all the different possibly things that might have happened."
"I saw Corrie just a couple of weekends before that weekend. Happy, go-lucky, positive, talking about future things… to my knowledge he was living in the moment."
Corrie McKeague and his mother Nicola Urquhart. Courtesy: Facebook / Nicola Urquhart
The comments come after an appeal from Corrie's mother was shared more than 90,000 times on Facebook.
Suffolk Police have released CCTV of the last time the missing RAF serviceman was seen - at 3:23am on Saturday September 24.
The footage appears to show Corrie McKeague walking along the street and passing close to a group of people before he carries on.
Police say the people blurred out of the footage have been eliminated from the investigation.
It's believed he later slept in a doorway in Brentgovel Street before moving on.
Police and RAF teams are searching for the missing serviceman.
Corrie McKeague is described as white, standing at 5ft 10ins tall, of medium build and wearing a light pink polo shirt and white jeans.
Mr Wringe called on members of the public to contact police if they had any information saying "it could make a difference".
He also asked members of the Armed Forces who could have been out training in the area and may now be elsewhere or a different country to think if they had seen anything. He said:
"Get in touch. It really matters. If you were there and you saw something, get in touch somehow."
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at Bury St Edmunds on 101.
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