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Corrie Mckeague: Suffolk Police to resume landfill search | Corrie Mckeague: Suffolk Police to resume landfill search |
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Police investigating the disappearance of missing airman Corrie Mckeague are to resume a search of a landfill site. | Police investigating the disappearance of missing airman Corrie Mckeague are to resume a search of a landfill site. |
Mr Mckeague has not been seen since he went on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in September 2016, when CCTV showed him entering a bin loading bay. | Mr Mckeague has not been seen since he went on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in September 2016, when CCTV showed him entering a bin loading bay. |
Suffolk Police spent 20 weeks trawling through the site in Milton, near Cambridge, before calling off the search in July. | |
The search will restart this week and is expected to take up to six weeks. | The search will restart this week and is expected to take up to six weeks. |
The mystery of the airman who disappeared | |
It will focus on an area next to the site of the earlier search, which was identified as that most likely to contain Mr Mckeague. | It will focus on an area next to the site of the earlier search, which was identified as that most likely to contain Mr Mckeague. |
The force said it took the decision to restart the probe in conjunction with East Midlands Special Operations Unit, which is reviewing its investigation. | The force said it took the decision to restart the probe in conjunction with East Midlands Special Operations Unit, which is reviewing its investigation. |
Det Supt Katie Elliott, from the Suffolk force, said: "We can't be 100% certain, and that's because of the variances there are with what happens to waste, but the information we have gathered has given us the case to go back there." | |
Mr Mckeague, who was 23 when he went missing, was last seen at 03:25 BST on 24 September 2016. | |
The gunner from Dunfermline, Fife, was out with friends from RAF Honington, where he is based. | |
Although police established early on in the investigation his mobile phone tracked the same route as a bin lorry, the landfill search did not start until March due to a "genuine mistake" with the data. | |
Police later revealed Mr Mckeague had been known to sleep in bins during nights out. | |
Material from the time and place of the serviceman's disappearance was found during the initial landfill search, but he was not found. | |
In June, Mr Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver, from Norfolk, gave birth to their daughter Ellie-Louise. |