The mum of missing RAF airman Corrie McKeague, 23, says she believes the police’s theory over the disappearance of her son in 2016 is wrong – after inquest heard he ‘died in the back of a bin lorry’
- Nicola Urquhart said CCTV showed her son Corrie McKeague leave the bin area
- She believes her son died after he went missing but doubt’s police conclusion
- An inquest heard Mr McKeague died in a bin lorry after sleeping in a Greggs bin
- The RAF airman went missing after a night out with friends in Sussex in 2016
RAF airman Corrie McKeague’s mother does not believe police’s theory her son died in a bin lorry – saying CCTV showed him leaving the bin area before he disappeared.
Nicola Urquhart, 51, said unpublished CCTV footage showed her son, 23, walking out alive from the area where he was last seen after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in 2016.
Police told her experts examined the footage and decided the figure was a woman in a miniskirt, and not Mr McKeague.
But his mother told The Mirror: ‘I said the description [of a girl] was put out, I’ve seen CCTV [of her], she was in dark jeans. That’s not a girl, that absolutely is Corrie.’
Mr McKeague was last seen alive at 3.25am on Saturday, September 24, 2016.
Nicola Urquhart (pictured), 51, said unpublished CCTV footage showed her son walking out alive from the area where he was last seen after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
CCTV footage showed him entering a horseshoe-shaped area in Brentgovel Street, behind a Superdrug and a Greggs shop, where there were several industrial waste bins
McKeague (pictured), 23, vanished after going out with friends in 2016. Ms Urquhart, a police officer from Dunfermline, Fife, believes her son died in 2016, but says he may have got into trouble as he made his way back to his base at RAF Honington
CCTV footage showed him entering a horseshoe-shaped area in Brentgovel Street, behind a Superdrug and a Greggs shop, where there were several industrial waste bins.
Ms Urquhart, a police officer from Dunfermline, Fife, believes her son died in 2016, but says he may have got into trouble as he made his way back to his base at RAF Honington.
Earlier this month an inquest heard Mr McKeague died in the back of a bin lorry after climbing into a Greggs bin and falling asleep.
She added: ‘To me they’ve proved beyond doubt Corrie didn’t go in the bin. I believe he walked out and came to harm trying to get back up to base.’
The £2million investigation was shelved in 2018 after no trace of Mr McKeague was found and Ms McKeague hopes an inquest next year could give her some answers.
Earlier this month an inquest heard Mr McKeague died in the back of a bin lorry after climbing into a Greggs bin and falling asleep
CCTV footage shows him entering a horseshoe-shaped area (pictured) in Brentgovel Street, behind a Superdrug and a Greggs shop, where there are several industrial waste bins
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It comes after Ms McKeague claimed a taxi driver’s wife called her to allege her husband had beaten Mr McKeague and left him for dead after he was sick in his cab.
In a second allegation, Ms Urquart said she received a call from another person who claimed they knew somebody who ‘said he and his friend had tried to rob Corrie.’
She added the person said the mugging had ‘gone wrong and they’d put him in the bin.’
Police were able to trace Mr McKeague’s mobile phone signal, which showed it had travelled around 14 miles in a vehicle shortly after 4am – at the same time the Greggs lorry was emptied into a lorry.
Mr McKeague was last seen near a bin loading area in Bury St Edmunds in 2016. Police searched a landfill site near Cambridge for his body in March the following year
Police carried out two searches of a 120-acre landfill site at Milton, Cambridgeshire, over 27 weeks in 2017, but found no sign of Mr McKeague’s body after sifting through 9,000 tons of rubbish
Mr McKeague’s girlfriend April Oliver (left), then 21, found out that she was pregnant with his child after he disappeared and later gave birth to his daughter Ellie-Louise
No trace of Mr McKeague has been found but Suffolk’s senior coroner, Nigel Parsley, said he ‘died in the Suffolk jurisdiction in September 2016’.
Marina Ericson, Temporary Chief Superintendent of Suffolk Police, told the hearing it is believed that Mr McKeague climbed into a bin which was emptied into a waste lorry where he subsequently died.
Police carried out two searches of a 120 acre landfill site at Milton, Cambridgeshire, over 27 weeks in 2017, but found no sign of Mr McKeague’s body after sifting through 9,000 tons of rubbish.