POLICE have resumed their landfill search for missing Scottish RAF gunner Corrie McKeague.
The 23-year-old was last seen walking through Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, after a night out with friends.
It is believed he may have climbed into a wheelie bin to sleep, and later been crushed to death in a bin lorry.
A five-month search of a landfill site was called off in July after no evidence of his body was found.
The latest search, likely to take around four to six weeks, will concentrate on an area in Milton, Cambridgeshire, near the site of the earlier search – an area known as Cell 22.
McKeague, from Fife, but based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, was last seen on CCTV at 3.25am on September 24 2016.
Detective Superintendent Katie Elliott said: “Throughout this rigorous investigation we have remained committed to following all reasonable lines of inquiry in our endeavours to discover what has happened to Corrie.
“Confronted by the variances in the way waste can be deposited and through further investigation we cannot discount the possibility Corrie may be elsewhere in Cell 22.”
McKeague’s girlfriend, April Oliver, announced in June that the missing serviceman had become a father with the birth of their daughter.
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