DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of RAF gunner Corrie McKeague have released CCTV images of people they want to speak to almost a year after he vanished.
McKeague was 23 when he vanished after a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, on September 24 last year.
No trace of McKeague, from Fife but based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, was found during a 20-week search of a sprawling landfill site at Milton in Cambridgeshire.
Sunday marks a year to the day since he disappeared, and Suffolk Police said there would be a presence in the town this weekend for people to speak to officers with new information.
A mobile office will be sited in Brentgovel Street, where McKeague, below was last seen at 3.25am.
Police have also released CCTV images of people they believe may have had some interaction with McKeague on the night he went missing.
Officers have stressed these people are not suspects, they are not key witnesses and have no direct link with McKeague, but may have information that could help them understand what happened to him.
The images include a woman in the doorway of Flex nightclub at 2.23am, a man entering the same club, and someone outside a McDonald’s restaurant at 4.30am.
There is also an image of a bald man in a red jacket walking away from Flex nightclub at about 1.25am, and an image of four men at the entrance to Flex nightclub at about 1.16am.
Suffolk Police said officers knew McKeague had a brief interaction with them before the group entered the Flex club.
Detective Superintendent Katie Elliott said: “Our thoughts are with Corrie’s family and friends 12 months on from his disappearance. It is fair to say that a year on from him going missing, we never thought we would be in this position of not yet locating Corrie or establishing exactly what happened to him.”
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