Corrie McKeague’s disappearance has confounded police, transfixed amateur sleuths and sparked one of the most baffling manhunts in recent memory.
The mother of missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague has claimed CCTV shows her son is not in landfill at the centre of the search for his body.
The airman vanished two years ago aged 23 and police have long thought he fell into a skip in Suffolk before being crushed in a refuse lorry and taken to the landfill site.
But his mother Nicola Urquhart today said on Facebook that CCTV of the so-called Horseshoe area in Bury St Edmonds shows him moments after the bin lorry left, reports Daily Mail.
"It is possible Corrie left on foot and is AWOL," she wrote online. "Corrie is NOT in the landfill, and never was, forensics, a search of Red Lodge, a search of the entire Landfill shows this."
The airman was last seen on September 24 2016 at 3.25am after a night out and his father, Martin, has previously said he accepts the theory his son fell asleep in a skip.
The Scottish-born gunner is believed to have climbed into the skip, which police say was an "unusually high" weight on the day Corrie vanished. One container weighed more than 18 stone its usual amount.
Search teams have scoured two landfill sites in Milton, Cambridgeshire, to no avail. Ms Urquhart's full post on Facebook read: "Suffolk Police cannot confirm Corrie wasn't given a lift out of the area."
Corrie McKeague's mother says CCTV shows he may have left area on foot and not in a skip. Photo / Supplied
ALL they can say is they didn't see him leave before 12am, after that, they have NOT even looked!!! as they do not have the CCTV, they never even asked for it.
"We have been shown CCTV of people in the area of the horseshoe just after Corrie walked in there, all are wearing dark clothing you then see them leaving the area and one is clearly wearing white or very light coloured trousers. (I believe this is Corrie).
"These people leave the area walking down Short Brackland street immediately after the bin lorry left.
"The Bin Lorry Driver confirms seeing Corrie in his statement and not being there along with the others he had seen when he drove out, this is also confirmed by CCTV as it shows these people leaving the area.
"I am expected to believe that these people changed there clothes and it wasn't Corrie. (again, we only saw this footage on our last meeting with Suffolk Police.)
"In Summary….. It is possible Corrie left on foot and is AWOL….. i do not and have never believed this is probable, Corrie made no plans, had no reason and has never been seen after the immediate sightings.
"Most importantly, as a family we know that if Corrie could see the way some people are behaving not a single person in the world could stop him from screaming from the rooftops about how he would feel about that.
"Had it been Darroch or Makeyan that had gone missing there is no way on this world I could have expected the same restraint at the disgust and anger they feel and to keep quiet from Corrie, any one that knows Corrie at all, knows just how true this statement is."
