Search for missing Corrie McKeague was 'handed to cold case team too soon'

The mother of missing airman Corrie McKeague has said police have handed the investigation to a cold case squad before "looking at all the information".

The 23-year-old was last seen in Bury St Edmunds after a night out with friends in September 2016.

Suffolk Police said Corrie's disappearance will now be treated as a cold case as police say there are no "realistic lines of enquiry left to pursue".

Suffolk Police say the case will remain open and any 'credible new information' will be followed up.

They say the've been through all 'realistic possibilities in detail' and there is 'nothing to suggest any foul play or third party involvement'.

Police conducted two searches of a landfill site at Milton near Cambridge last year, with the first search lasting 20 weeks and the second, lasting seven weeks.

No trace of Mr McKeague was found in either searches, but police said they will explore other lines of enquiry into the airman's disappearance.

In December, officers said they were 'content' Corrie is not in the landfill areas which have now been searched.

Corrie's mother, Nicola Urquhart, told the Victoria Derbyshire show that the family will not give up until they have "reasonable" answers about what happened to him.

She said: "The police have done a massive amount of work, we are really grateful for everything that they have done.

"I don't want to come on here and just criticise the police, but - and it maybe that we get to the same point as they are - but they've turned this over to a cold case before they've looked at all the information."