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Corrie Mckeague: Mother claims missing airman 'may have dodged CCTV' | Corrie Mckeague: Mother claims missing airman 'may have dodged CCTV' |
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The mother of a missing airman believed buried in landfill claims he could have walked away from the scene of his last sighting without being spotted by CCTV. | The mother of a missing airman believed buried in landfill claims he could have walked away from the scene of his last sighting without being spotted by CCTV. |
Corrie Mckeague disappeared in September 2016 after CCTV showed him entering a bin bay in Bury St Edmunds. | Corrie Mckeague disappeared in September 2016 after CCTV showed him entering a bin bay in Bury St Edmunds. |
Police maintain he was taken to a landfill site in an "unusual" 116kg load on a lorry. | Police maintain he was taken to a landfill site in an "unusual" 116kg load on a lorry. |
Nicola Urquhart claims she has seen new data that loads were often over 100kg and has challenged the police's theory. | Nicola Urquhart claims she has seen new data that loads were often over 100kg and has challenged the police's theory. |
Officers spent 20 weeks trawling through a landfill near Cambridge where the bins from Bury St Edmunds were later tipped but failed to find any remains. | Officers spent 20 weeks trawling through a landfill near Cambridge where the bins from Bury St Edmunds were later tipped but failed to find any remains. |
Mrs Urquhart claimed new information revealed at a recent meeting with Suffolk Police has led her to believe her son could have left the bin bay alive without being recorded on CCTV. | Mrs Urquhart claimed new information revealed at a recent meeting with Suffolk Police has led her to believe her son could have left the bin bay alive without being recorded on CCTV. |
Last month, Corrie's father Martin Mckeague said his son was "somewhere in the Suffolk waste disposal system", adding: "Corrie is no longer missing... after looking at all of the facts and evidence we now know what happened." | Last month, Corrie's father Martin Mckeague said his son was "somewhere in the Suffolk waste disposal system", adding: "Corrie is no longer missing... after looking at all of the facts and evidence we now know what happened." |
At the time Mrs Urquhart insisted she had "not given up" the search for her son, who is originally from Dunfermline in Fife. | |
After a meeting last week she has called for a new detailed search along a route she says her son took to Bury St Edmunds to avoid traffic. | After a meeting last week she has called for a new detailed search along a route she says her son took to Bury St Edmunds to avoid traffic. |
A Suffolk Police spokesman said: "Whilst we have always remained open-minded, we continue to stand by what we have previously stated. | A Suffolk Police spokesman said: "Whilst we have always remained open-minded, we continue to stand by what we have previously stated. |
"The most likely scenario is that Corrie McKeague unfortunately went into the bin which was emptied into the Biffa lorry and consequently ended up in the waste process. | "The most likely scenario is that Corrie McKeague unfortunately went into the bin which was emptied into the Biffa lorry and consequently ended up in the waste process. |
"We have come to this conclusion based on all of the evidence we have available to us, and not just the weight of the bin. | "We have come to this conclusion based on all of the evidence we have available to us, and not just the weight of the bin. |
"There is nothing to suggest the 116kg the bin weighed on the night Corrie was last seen is inaccurate." | "There is nothing to suggest the 116kg the bin weighed on the night Corrie was last seen is inaccurate." |
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