Men seen in CCTV footage of Corrie McKeague have been identified
Written by News on 23/09/2017
Detectives investigating the disappearance of RAF gunner Corrie McKeague have identified four men who joked with him on the night he vanished.
CCTV images were released of the group, who had a "brief interaction ending on friendly terms" with the 23-year-old in the hours before he went missing in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Following the police’s appeal, one of the men came forward – 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 Mr McKeague.
The development comes a nearly a year after he mysteriously disappeared after a night out on 24 September 2016.
He was last seen on CCTV holding a fast food container as he walked through the centre of Bury St Edmunds, before falling asleep in a shop doorway.
In July, police ended a five-month search of a landfill site for Mr McKeague.
Detectives believed the serviceman may have been taken away in a rubbish truck after falling into a bin, but no evidence of his body has been found.
A special operations unit has been commissioned to review Suffolk Police’s investigation into the disappearance, which has cost more than £1.2m to date.
Detective Superintendent Katie Elliott said: "Our thoughts are with Corrie’s family and friends 12 months on from his disappearance.
"It is fair to say that a year on from him going missing, we never thought we would be in this position of not yet locating Corrie or establishing exactly what happened to him."
(c) Sky News 2017: Men seen in CCTV footage of Corrie McKeague have been identified
