Corrie McKeague: Search resumes for missing RAF gunner
POLICE are back searching for missing Scottish airman Corrie McKeague at a rubbish tip today after lorries and diggers spent last week clearing a new area.
Police are still searching for Corrie McKeague as the search continues
Police returned to the landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, as they continue to search for the 23-year-old, who went missing last September.
It comes as his devastated father, Martin McKeague, revealed today that he is surviving on a diet of sleeping pills and cigarettes.
He told local paper, The Cambridge Evening News: "I'm broken. It's horrific - it's just unbelievable. I'm not the same person I was all those months ago.
"I am not working. I am on the 'sick' and have been since the day I heard.
"We never thought we'd be here. Half the time we don't even know what day it is, what date it is, what month it is."
Corrie went missing after a night out in Bury St Edmunds last September
I'm broken. It's horrific – it's just unbelievable
Gunner McKeague vanished following a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk last September.
Police began searching the landfill site after revealing he may have ended up in a storage bin of rubbish that was picked up by a disposal lorry.
They have now spent four months raking through more than 4,430 tonnes of rubbish as part of a £1 million investigation.
Missing airman Corrie Mckeague due to become a father
The search had been due to come to an end, but the police force have said it would now continue on a "week by week basis" as they are still finding items from the right time frame.
Last week lorries and diggers were seen bulk-moving rubbish as officers expanded the search site.