Corrie McKeague’s dad makes emotional return to landfill site as police continue grim search for missing RAF man’s body

THE FATHER of missing RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague has made a second emotional visit to a landfill site in Cambridgeshire today - as officers continue to search for his son's body.

Martin McKeague, 48, and his wife Trisha, 54, travelled from Fife to the rubbish tip in Milton where officers are searching for the 23-year-old.

They were seen standing on the edge of the search site, while officers pointed out the work that was going on.

The couple were then led onto the site, where they chatted to the search team.

Afterwards the officers left them alone and they were seen with their heads bowed and Trisha in tears, before they were taken back to police headquarters.

Officers in white suits and breathing masks have now spent eight days searching for Corrie's body and have already sifted through almost 500 tonnes of rotting waste.

Corrie has not been seen since a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in September.

Last week Suffolk Police said a bin lorry where Corrie's phone was tracked, which was originally thought to weigh too little to contain him, actually had a weight of more than 100kg.

Officers have now revealed they are "confident" they will find his body at the landfill.

Last week Corrie's dad, Martin McKeague, 48, said that visiting the landfill site was like staring into a "piece of hell."

He said that they, like everyone else, could only speculate about what had happened to Corrie, who went missing after a night out with friends on September 24, last year. He was last seen on CCTV going into an area of the town called the horseshoe.

Mr McKeague said: "I can only speculate it could possibly be some tragic accident that Corrie possibly could have gotten into the bin or something sinister might have happened that might have led him to be put in the bin. But like everyone else we can only speculate."

He said the last six months had been "a rollercoaster with a lot of lows."

"From the moment that my wife told me, I was grieving from that moment and this has been the most horrendous time. It's been like a rollercoaster with a lot of lows, an awful lot of lows," he said.

"But I'm beginning to focus and finding the strength in myself to see this out over the next few days, weeks, however long this is going to take, and the months ahead."

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