MISSING airman Corrie McKeague’s corpse will be found at a rubbish tip, according to a senior cop.
Det Supt Katie Elliott is “confident” officers will unearth his remains as the massive search of the landfill site continues.
She hit out after learning the load of a bin lorry investigated by cops was 90kg heavier than thought— with the extra 14stone 2lb likely to be his body.
She said: “It’s frustrating for me — it must be terribly frustrating for Corrie’s family.
“I would have liked to have had the information sooner that would have led us to this point.
“I have a strong belief we will find him here.
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“To have that information reinforced the decision we’d already made that we needed to search this landfill site.”
Her grim prediction comes a day after we revealed his family believe he was taken to the dump in a wagon.
They fear the RAF gunner, 23, of Dunfermline, climbed into a wheelie bin to sleep while drunk and was tipped into the vehicle’s crusher.
Teams have so far sifted through 60 tonnes of waste at the sprawling tip in Milton, Cambs.
Det Supt Elliot, of Suffolk Police, added: “We have been working tirelessly to find Corrie. That’s been our priority.”
His mum Nicola Urquhart, 47, said: “This can really, devastatingly only mean one thing.”
She also admitted it “seems so unlikely” that her son is still alive.
Nicola told Sky News that she was “terrified that they might find something but at the same time so relieved because from the very beginning it’s been the most obvious and it has been the only bit of information, really intelligence, that they’ve ever had, that Corrie’s phone travelled in the same place as the bin lorry.”
“It was relief but at the same time really, really worried and terrified that they may find something.”
She added: “I think it would be quite unrealistic for me to presume that Corrie could still be alive,” but said “thinking that and believing it are two completely different things.
“Just now my absolute focus is on trying to keep it together for long enough to find Corrie.”
Corrie’s dad Martin McKeague, 48, and his wife Trisha, 54, travelled from Cupar, Fife, to the site on Monday.
Corrie vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on September 24.
His phone signal matched the lorry’s route. but police waited to trawl the dump after waste firm Biffa mistakenly said the load from the bin was only 11kg.
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