Search for Corrie McKeague at landfill site to be extended

Police are to resume the search for missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague.

The 23-year-old went missing on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in September 2016.

A five-month search of a landfill site was called off in July after no evidence of his body was found.

But Suffolk Police said that after rechecking the information available to them, the investigative team concluded the area of the original search "is still the location where there was the highest likelihood of finding Corrie''.

The force said the resumed, extended search, likely to take between four and six weeks, would concentrate on an area next to the site of the earlier search.

Mr McKeague from Dunfermline, Fife but based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, was last seen on CCTV at 3.25am on September 24, 2016.

Detective Superintendent Katie Elliott said: "Throughout this rigorous investigation we have remained committed to following all reasonable lines of inquiry in our endeavours to discover what has happened to Corrie.

"Confronted by the variances in the way waste can be deposited and through further investigation we cannot discount the possibility Corrie may be elsewhere in Cell 22.

"Therefore, we believe our decision to extend the search area is the correct one."