A POLICE search team trawling a landfill site as part of the lengthy investigation into missing Scottish RAF gunner Corrie McKeague has been through more than 845 tonnes of waste.
Suffolk Police said that officers from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) were now working with the force, as the search nears the end of its third week. It could take the team of eight trained search officers up to 10 weeks to sift through rubbish up to 8m deep (26ft), covering around 920sq metres (9,902sq ft) of the dump in Milton, near Cambridge.
Detective Superintendent Katie Elliott said: “Officers have completed thousands of hours of inquiries to find Corrie and through the work that has been completed over the past few months we have gathered a substantial amount of information which will inform both our own and any potential HSE investigation as we move forward.”
McKeague’s mother Nicola Urquhart, from Fife, said that she was “terrified” of what the team might find at the site.
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