Cops desperately searching for RAF pilot Corrie McKeague, 23, who vanished on a night out release CCTV footage
One theory is that the RAF Regiment gunner from Dunfermline, Fife, might have been hit by a car while trying to walk the ten miles back to his base at RAF Honington
THE uncle of a Scottish RAF serviceman who went missing on a night out more than a week ago has pleaded with him to get in touch.
Corrie McKeague, 23, has not been seen since the early hours of Saturday September 24 when he was in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
One theory is that the RAF Regiment gunner from Dunfermline, Fife, might have been hit by a car while trying to walk the ten miles back to his base at RAF Honington.
Police and RAF personnel were today continuing a search of the area, but have so far found no trace of him.
Mr McKeague’s uncle Tony Wringe, a former serviceman, told Forces TV: “This is entirely out of character.
“Corrie is so connected to his family, to his brothers, to his friends and to the guys that he serves with.”
Mr Wringe said his family had been left “questioning all the different things that could have happened”
He made a direct plea to him, saying: "If it’s for any reason that you’re now AWOL, it’s a storm in a tea cup.
“We’ve all been there. We’ve all done dumb stuff in our service time but in a fortnight from now this will just be a bar story. So get in touch. We can chat it through, we’ll work it out and we’ll fix it - but get in touch."
Mr Wringe described his nephew as a "very happy-go-lucky, friendly guy".
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He added: "It’s hard to deal with the uncertainty, that’s the most difficult.
“When it is so out of character for somebody that’s so outgoing and so connected to his family to just vanish… you start to question all the different possibly things that might have happened."
"I saw Corrie just a couple of weekends before that weekend. Happy, go-lucky, positive, talking about future things… to my knowledge he was living in the moment."
Mr McKeague was wearing a light pink shirt and white trousers when he was filmed by CCTV as he walked unsteadily outside The Grapes pub in Bury St Edmunds at 3.23am on September.
It is believed that he may have slept briefly in a shop doorway before moving on.
Suffolk Police said his bank cards and mobile phone had not been used since his disappearance.
Officer carried out “anniversary” checks in Bury St Edmunds on Friday night, asking people in the town if they could recall seeing him a week earlier.
Mr McKeague’s mother Nicola Urquhart of Dunfermline has taken to social media to help the hunt for him. A plea which she put out on Facebook for people to come forward if they had any information has so far been shared more than 200,000 times.
A Suffolk Police spokesman said: "We are continuing to review CCTV in a bid to trace his movements and specialist search officers have been out in the area between Honington and Bury St Edmunds to look for him, checking possible routes between the locations.
"Officers are liaising with the RAF and Mr McKeague's family and are asking anyone who may have information to come forward.”
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