Mum of Fife airman Corrie McKeague hopes inquest will provide closure

The mum of Fife airman Corrie McKeague says she hopes an inquest into his disappearance will give her the closure she needs.

The 23-year-old vanished on a night out in Suffolk four years ago.

No trace of him as ever been found, but detectives believe he died after entering a bin loading bay.

Nicola Urquhart told us she won't stop until she's exhausted every avenue.

"We've never been able to find Corrie, yet I still don't know if we've done absolutely everything that I possibly can to find my son.

"We do accept that Corrie is dead, but we don't know how, why or when. We'll never get those answers without finding Corrie first.

"It's the inquest going to give us the type of closure we need. That we know we've done everything we possibly can.

"That's why we've tried to so hard to get this and we're so pleased we've now got it."

In a statement, Suffolk County Council said: Following an application at the request of the family of Corrie McKeague, the Chief Coroner for England and Wales has directed the Senior Coroner for Suffolk to hold an inquest into Corrie's death which there is reason to believe occurred on September 24 2016.

A date for a short inquest opening hearing is yet to be finalised, but is expected to occur within the next two weeks.

A pre-inquest review hearing will be held early in 2021.

The inquest itself will follow later in 2021.

Corrie, a serving member of the Royal Air Force, is believed to have come by his death following a night out in Bury St Edmunds on September 24 2016 and extensive searches have not been able to find his body.''

Mr McKeague was stationed at RAF Honington.

The investigation into his disappearance was passed to cold case detectives in 2018.

Suffolk Police said the most likely scenario'' is that Mr McKeague went into a bin which was emptied into a lorry and ended up in the waste process.