POLICE investigating the disappearance of Scottish RAF gunner Corrie McKeague have arrested a man on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Suffolk Constabulary said the 26-year-old suspect was arrested on Wednesday and is being questioned over “information provided to the investigation”.
McKeague, 23, from Fife, vanished on a night out with friends on September 24 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Police said the arrested man is not the driver of a bin lorry which collected refuse from the area where McKeague was last seen, but no further information was given.
The last CCTV sighting of McKeague showed him walking from a shop doorway and into a horseshoe-shaped area in Brentgovel Street, with no sign of him emerging. CCTV also shows a waste lorry made a collection in the area shortly after the last confirmed sighting and the vehicle’s route appeared to coincide with the movements of McKeague’s phone, but police found no trace of him in the lorry. However, preparations are being made to search a landfill site in Milton in the next week.
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