Mother of missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague retraces his final steps

The mother of missing RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague is retracing her son's steps one year on from the night he disappeared.

Corrie was last seen on CCTV holding a fast food container as he walked through the centre of Bury St Edmunds after a night out, before falling asleep in a shop doorway.

His mother, Nicola Urquhart, hopes retracing his final route could jog someone's memory.

She told Sky News: "When I'm talking to people there's an awful lot of confusion sometimes about Corrie's movements, where he's gone, possibilities and theories they may have.

"I understand it now because I've seen it and I've walked around before so I thought it might be helpful if I physically showed people because then it wouldn't just be me trying to describe what happened, other people would understand exactly what's happened and hopefully we'll get some more information in."

Detectives believed Corrie may have been taken away in a rubbish truck after falling into a bin but police ended a five-month search of a landfill site in July after no evidence of his body was found.

"Yes, it's logical that he has ended up at cell 22 at the landfill, but if he was there they would have found him. To me that suggests he's not there so it must be something else," Ms Urquart told Sky News on Sunday.

More than 1,100 hours of CCTV have been viewed in the search for Corrie, who was stationed at RAF Honington in Suffolk and was last seen on 24 September 2016.

"I never imagined we would be here one year later - I can't actually believe it's a year, it has just gone past in a blur.

"It's difficult but I feel like we are doing things that are constructive and proactive to try to assist the investigation.

"There is still so much more that can be done and is getting done by the police and we'll just keep trying to help them. That's how we're coping."

Detectives yesterday identified four men who had a "brief interaction ending on friendly terms" with the 23-year-old in the hours before he went missing.

One of the men came forward following a police appeal and gave officers the names of his three friends who were also pictured.

Suffolk Police has stressed the four people are not suspects, but they may have information that could help detectives understand what happened to Corrie.