POLICE searching for missing RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague have identified landfill rubbish “from the right time period” when he disappeared.

Mr McKeague, 23, from Dunfermline, Fife, vanished in September last year in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and was last seen on CCTV walking into a refuse loading bay at 3.25am.

Officers have been searching through waste at the vast site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, for around two months. Movements from a bin lorry appeared to coincide with the location of the signal given off by the serviceman’s mobile phone shortly after he disappeared.

Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter:

Detectives fear he was picked up by a bin lorry and his body was dumped in a landfill site.

The task was estimated to take 10 weeks as officers raked though waste 26ft deep, covering around 9,902sq ft, at the dump.His mother Nicola Urquhart previously spoke of her pain on Facebook as the landfill search got under way.

She said: “The kindness and support in every private or public message is still overwhelming, but honestly it’s never been appreciated more.”