POLICE investigating the disappearance of RAF gunner Corrie McKeague plan to search a landfill site.
The 23-year-old, from Fife, vanished while on a night out with friends on September 24 in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. CCTV shows that a waste lorry made a collection in the area McKeague was last seen shortly, with the last confirmed sighting of him coming at 3.25am.
The lorry was seized in the early stages of the inquiry for forensic examination and did not reveal any traces of McKeague, but police kept the waste collection line of inquiry under review. A landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, is where the waste collected from Bury St Edmunds that morning was deposited.
Police said they alerted the site early in the investigation of the possible need to search it, and that no further waste had been deposited in the area of the site where the Bury St Edmunds waste was deposited.
It is estimated it will take a team of specialist search trained officers six to 10 weeks to complete the search.
Why are you making commenting on The National only available to subscribers?
We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
Unfortunately, though, these important debates are being spoiled by a vocal minority of trolls who aren’t really interested in the issues, try to derail the conversations, register under fake names, and post vile abuse.
So that’s why we’ve decided to make the ability to comment only available to our paying subscribers. That way, all the trolls who post abuse on our website will have to pay if they want to join the debate – and risk a permanent ban from the account that they subscribe with.
The conversation will go back to what it should be about – people who care passionately about the issues, but disagree constructively on what we should do about them. Let’s get that debate started!
Callum Baird, Editor of The National
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules here