Missing Corrie: Possible clue found at incinerator plant
Police looking for Dunfermline serviceman Corrie McKeague say they've found material which needs "further examination".
Last updated 3rd Aug 2017
Police looking for missing Dunfermline serviceman Corrie McKeague may have found a new clue at an incinerator plant near Ipswich.
They've discovered material which they say needs "further examination" to see it's linked to the 23-year old's disappearance.
Officers switched their focus to the new site after ending the search of a landfill in Cambridgeshire.
Corrie, who was based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, vanished after a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds on September 24, 2016.
The search of a landfill close to Cambridge was called off after officers sifted through 6,500 tonnes of waste over 20 weeks.
A spokesman from Suffolk Police said: "Police searching incinerated waste at the Great Blakenham energy-from-waste facility have recovered some material that requires further examination.
"At this stage it cannot be confirmed whether or not this material is in any way linked to Corrie.
"It will be subject to specialist examination and forensic analysis in the coming weeks.
"Police expected that it would be necessary to take items recovered from the search away from the site in order to examine them more carefully.
"Corrie's family have been kept updated about the search.
"The search of the incinerated waste is now complete."
A bin lorry was seen on CCTV near Brentgovel Street in Bury St Edmunds around the time Mr McKeague was last seen, and it took a route which appeared to coincide with the movements of his phone