{"id":140295,"date":"2021-09-30T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=140295"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:06:18","slug":"mystery-of-missing-airman-corrie-mckeague-still-unsolved-but-most-likely-he-died-after-sleeping-in-a-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/mystery-of-missing-airman-corrie-mckeague-still-unsolved-but-most-likely-he-died-after-sleeping-in-a-bin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of missing airman Corrie McKeague still unsolved but 'most likely' he died after sleeping in a bin"},"content":{"rendered":"

AN INQUEST into the circumstances of missing Corrie McKeague may never resolve how he vanished, a court heard today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of the RAF airman may never be solved, but a pre-inquest review has heard that it is \u201cmost likely\u201d that he died after sleeping in a bin.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Corrie, 23, vanished after going out drinking with colleagues in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, back in September 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His body has never been found, and he was last seen on CCTV entering a bin loading area behind a row of shops after boozing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite a multi-million pound investigation, which included two separate searches of a landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, no trace of the airman has ever been found.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The investigation was passed to cold case detectives in March 2018 but Corrie was never found.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite the lack of a body Suffolk Coroner\u2019s Court today confirmed that a full inquest will open into his death next year.<\/p>\n

A pre-inquest hearing heard that crucial evidence will revolve around a Biffa bin lorry collection from a Greggs store in Bury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is thought that Corrie could have been inside a large industrial bin which was removed from the site and taken to landfil.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Suffolk Police has maintained that the \u201cmost likely\u201d scenario was that Corrie got into a bin and was emptied into a Biffa lorry before consequently ending up in the waste process.<\/p>\n

Peter Taheri, counsel to the inquest, told a hearing in Ipswich that Chief Superintendent Marina Ericson of Suffolk Police had prepared a "statement on alternative hypotheses".<\/p>\n

The witness statement, which he described as "30 pages or so" in length, was put together to show what police had considered.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s hearing came just days after Corrie's dad said his beloved son\u2019s disappearance had left him "utterly broken".\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last Friday marked five years since the RAF gunner was last seen in Bury St Edmunds following a night out in the town.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Corrie was stationed at RAF Honington – which is located around 11 miles from Bury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It's not got any easier, as a matter of fact, it's got a whole lot worse<\/p>\n

His dad, Martin McKeague, said the past five years have been "horrendous" and insisted dealing with the disappearance of his son has got harder in time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said: "I'm just as devastated as I was when I first found out my son was missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"It's been a horrendous five years. It's not got any easier, as a matter of fact, it's got a whole lot worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"I miss Corrie every day. I think about Corrie every day. I wish I could put my arms around him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"I've done what any parent would do in looking for him. I'm utterly broken.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"I just miss him. His laugh, his sense of humour, everything. It really is just a nightmare."<\/p>\n

Cops previously said although they remains "open-minded", there is no evidence to suggest any foul play or third party involvement.<\/p>\n

They added that has been no corroborated sighting of Corrie and there has been no use of his bank card or passport since his disappearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

'THOROUGH INVESTIGATION'<\/h2>\n

The force also previously said that more than 2,000 hours of CCTV footage had been viewed and Corrie is not seen on any of it.<\/p>\n

Investigators deemed it "almost impossible" for Corrie to have left the bin loading area on foot without being seen.<\/p>\n

An independent review into Suffolk Police's inquiry concluded a \u201cthorough, methodical and detailed investigation\u201d had been carried out in the search for the airman.<\/p>\n

A private investigation firm was hired by Nicola Urquhart, Corrie's mother, but the information which was collected and passed to police brought no new leads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An inquest into the RAF serviceman's death was opened in November last year ahead of the full inquest next year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The full inquest is scheduled to take place over three weeks from March 7 to April 1, 2022, at Suffolk Coroner's Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Suffolk Constabulary said: "Our thoughts are with Corrie\u2019s family, as they always are, at what must be a particularly difficult time of the year for them.\u201d<\/p>\n


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