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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 landfill 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. |
| 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 mystery of the airman who disappeared | |
| The force said it took the decision to restart the search 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." | 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." |
| She said officers have "explained fully" why they are restarting the search to Mr Mckeague's family. | |
| "They are pleased that there is a further active line of inquiry and some hope we may be able to provide the answers." | |
| Mr Mckeague, who was 23 when he went missing, was last seen at 03:25 BST on 24 September 2016. | 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. | 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. | |
| Police later revealed Mr Mckeague had been known to sleep in bins during nights out. | 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. | 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. | In June, Mr Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver, from Norfolk, gave birth to their daughter Ellie-Louise. |