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Mother takes part in missing Fife airman search

Nicola Urquhart joins search and rescue volunteers
Nicola Urquhart joins search and rescue volunteers

A group of 60 volunteers and family and friends of a missing Fife airman have scoured a forest looking for evidence he could have been hit by a vehicle.

Corrie Mckeague’s mother Nicola Urquhart asked Suffolk Lowland Search and Rescue to provide expertise on the search of about five square miles (13 sq km) of land.

No evidence was found in the search but the campaign will continue, she said.

Corrie McKeague.
Corrie McKeague.

The 23-year-old was last seen in Bury St Edmunds on September 24.

The airman, originally from Dunfermline in Fife, was based at nearby RAF Honington.

Searchers began to scour the forest as dawn was breaking

He was escorted out of Flex nightclub in Bury’s town centre and was spotted several times on CCTV but the trail went cold after he entered a dead end road.

Andy King, from the search group, said: “We set out to find any evidence that he may have been hit by a vehicle while trying to get back to the airbase and his body was somewhere along the route.”

The missing airman’s mother Nicola Urquhart thanked those taking part in the search and said her campaign would go on.

Nicola Urquhart and search and rescue volunteers
Nicola Urquhart and search and rescue volunteers

Ms Urquhart, who said she had no intention of giving up looking for her son, thanked the many people who came to help.

They were split into six groups to undertake different parts of the search in King’s Forest between the air base and Barton Mills.

She also said hundreds more had volunteered but she had asked only a select few to take part in the search, which began just after dawn on Saturday.