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Corrie McKeague: Police make arrest in case of missing RAF man

Police investigating missing Corrie McKeague have arrested a man on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The 23-year-old gunner, who was stationed at RAF Honington in Suffolk, vanished on a night out in Bury St Edmunds in September last year.

Police said the man was arrested on Wednesday.

The 26-year-old, who was later released on bail until April, was questioned by Suffolk Police over "information provided to the investigation".

He is not the driver of the bin lorry that collected rubbish from the area where Mr McKeague was last seen, police have confirmed.

Footage of two people still not identified and seen separately in the area around the time he disappeared has also been released.

Detectives said the pair are "potential witnesses".

It shows them on foot between 3.20am and 5.20am on Saturday 24 September.

Mr McKeague was last recorded entering a dead-end loading area, known as the 'horseshoe', behind a Greggs shop at 3.25am - but there was no sign of him leaving.

He had become separated from his friends after leaving a nightclub.

When he disappeared he was wearing a light pink Ralph Lauren shirt, white jeans and brown suede Timberland boots with light soles.

His mobile phone signal was traced to the Barton Mills area in the hours after he was last seen - travelling at a speed that suggests he was in a vehicle - but the handset was never found.

Despite police looking through more than 1,000 hours of CCTV, the disappearance of the Fife-born serviceman remains a mystery.

A search of a landfill site is planned to start in the next week amid fears that Mr McKeague could have accidentally been picked up in a bin from the 'horseshoe' area.

"Work is being carried out to move a large volume of bulk material and to build access routes to allow the search to get under way," said a police statement.

Police previously seized a refuse vehicle which made a collection in the 'horseshoe' a short time after the last confirmed sighting of Mr McKeague.

It was released after forensic examinations revealed no traces of him and its load was measured at only 15kg.

However, the bin lorry theory has remained an active line of inquiry.

The landfill search is expected to take six to 10 weeks and covers 920 square metres with waste up to 26ft deep.

In January the RAF serviceman's mother, Nicola Urquhart, spearheaded a search by family members at Barton Mills, the last place Mr McKeague's phone was detected.

They were joined by 100 volunteers, search dogs and drones but found no further clues to help explain his mystery disappearance.

Police have also been looking at Mr McKeague's use of a swingers website as part of the investigation - something his mother said was "not a secret".

In January, it emerged that Mr McKeague's girlfriend is expecting a child.