Corrie McKeague's mother says someone killed her son
Corrie McKeague has been missing since a night out in Bury St Edmunds last September
The mother of missing airman Corrie McKeague has claimed her son may have been killed before being dumped in landfill.
Nicola Urquhart, 48, blasted police on Facebook after they dramatically ended the search of a landfill site in Cambridgeshire after 20 weeks.
Specialist search teams have sifted through more than 6,500 tonnes of waste but found 'no trace' of Corrie
They've now admitted that the 23-year-old's body is now never likely to be found.
But on Saturday, Nicola revealed the dig started at the site in Milton, on the outskirts of Cambridge, after a call to the reward hotline claiming Corrie has been killed.
Writing on the Find Corrie site, Nicola said: 'Somone (sic) claimed to me on a reward phone to have been told who killed Corrie and put him in the landfill.
'The police know this and that is why they started looking at the process of the landfill and went on to search the landfill, yet they are not exhausting all lines of enquiry by completing the search.
'Effectively what we have been told by Suffolk and Norfolk police is if anyone wishes to dispose of a body be that your child or mine.
'Put it in a bin and let it go to landfill because they will simply walk away.'
Corrie's mother Nicola Urquhart (pictured) said she wanted police to continue searching the landfill site on the outskirts of Cambridge where Corrie's body is believed to be
A petition has now been set up calling for the landfill search to continue until Corrie's body is found.
Within hours, thousands of people had signed the document, which asked: 'Why start a job if you are not going to complete it?'
But Nicola also revealed she is seeking legal advice on obtaining an injunction to stop the landfill site being filled in until she gets more answers.
She said: 'I am getting advice about the possibility about an injunction to stop them filling the landfill in at least until there is more honesty and plain speaking from the police.
Police have sifted through roughly 6,500 tonnes of waste over the last twenty weeks looking for the RAF gunner, but with no luckÂ
'I think it would help if everyone did write to Tim Passmore the crime commissioner and the chief constable as if we don't tell them we are unhappy they can simply carry on walking away.
'Suffolk and Norfolk joint MIT team have been searching the landfill for 20 weeks. It is there belief that Corrie is in there.
'This is there strongest line of enquiry and as such they are not looking at other possible lines or have dismissed them already as they so firmly believe Corrie is in the landfill.
Ms Urquhart claimed that police had not yet exhausted all lines of enquiry and it would take only a few more weeks to definitely establish whether McKeague's body was in the landfill
'Yesterday's decision to stop searching at the landfill means they have now given up on finding Corrie.
'Suffolk Police have handed back the landfill and are trying to have it filled back in this week.
'For clarity there is possibly only a few more weeks with help of searching that would allow police to find Corrie or to be able to say he is not in that landfill.'
Police called off the search despite revealing they knew Corrie regularly climbed into bins to go to sleep after a night out.
McKeague was last spotted on CCTV after a night out in Bury St Edmunds on September 24
It is feared he fell asleep in an industrial bin following a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on September 24 last year.
Detective Superintendent Katie Elliott, of Suffolk Police, said: 'Corrie had been known to go to sleep in rubbish.
'We've explored every other reasonable hypothesis and there is nothing to support any other explanation.
Martin McKeague (left), Corrie's father, said he didn't think the search would end this way while Ms Urquhart (right) is now hoping to legally stop the landfill being reusedÂ
'All the work we have carried out points to Corrie being taken to the landfill site. There is nothing to support any theory other than Corrie was in that bin.
'We had compelling information that directed us to this area, however we haven't found Corrie and this is bitterly disappointing.
'It's never been about money in this investigation. We have searched the areas where we have information where that waste was deposited.
'Beyond that it's very difficult to establish exactly where we would search for Corrie.'
Ms Elliott said any new lines of inquiry would be pursued 'vigorously', and added she still believe d Corrie's body was somewhere in the landfill. Â
Speaking on Friday, Corrie's dad Martin McKeague, 54, said: 'At no point did we think that the search would end this way.
'All the evidence tells us that Corrie is somewhere in that landfill site.
'We are heartbroken at the thought we may not be able to bring Corrie home.
Corrie's girlfriend, April Oliver, gave birth to his baby daughter last monthÂ
'But we are, as a family, somehow going to get through this together.'
An independent review is to take place into Suffolk Police's handling of Corrie's disappearance.
Corrie is originally from Fife in Scotland and moved down to Suffolk to live at RAF Honington where he worked as a gunner and team medic in the air force.
His girlfriend April Oliver gave birth to his baby daughter, Ellie-Louise Oliver, last month.
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