Missing airman Corrie McKeague’s niece has written a heart-rending letter to her uncle pleading with him to come home.
Corrie has not been seen since the early hours of Saturday September 24 when he was on a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds, with his last known movements captured on CCTV at precisely 3.24am.
Speculation suggests that Corrie, from Dunfermline, intended to walk the nine miles or so back to his base at RAF Honington, but police are refusing to rule anything out as the missing person enquiry continues.
As the search for the 23-year-old serviceman enters its fourth week, Corrie’s nine-year-old niece Tyler joined the chorus of people calling for his safe return.
“Please come back I’m missing you so much and so is everyone,” she wrote.
“Don’t run away ever again.
“I am writing this note because we are missing you so much.”
Tyler’s mum Kelly Watson posted the letter on Facebook, adding: “She just wants him to come home safe and be with his family.”
Suffolk Police have called on everyone who was in the town centre between 3am and 6am on the morning of Corrie’s disappearance to get in touch, while search teams continue to scour a wide radius amid fears a third party might be involved.
Police say there is no evidence so far of third party involvement or criminality, but it is feared that Corrie may have got into a vehicle of some sort willingly or otherwise.
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