Might be of interest but I had an issue with my phone on Friday night after being on the bevvy all day (scottish trait)
Basically I got an Uber back home and when I got out I immediately realised I had left my phone in it.
Anyway, I phoned it using my wifes phone and the guy answered promising to bring it back, but he eventually started denying he ever had it (despite answering it, explain that one!!??), so anyway, I reported it to the police & uber yesterday.
I have checked some things online and it stopped syncing at 5.30am on the saturday morning, given I had been out from around 1.30pm the previous afternoon, i can only assume that it remained on from when i got home (10.30pm) until it eventually ran out of battery the following morning.
Now, is it possible that the bin man has jumped out to position the bin and unlock it and discovered Corries phone (possibly left on bin lid while he took a piss?) And similarly like my uber driver, he has thought to himself 'nice little bonus' and pocketed it, which would explain why the phone followed the bin lorry route?
It wouldnt explain how Corrie got out of that area without being seen (though i now have my suspicions) but could be a possibility for the phone?
Therein lies the problem.
Before you left your phone in the cab, how many "pee's" did you have ? And how many times did you take out your phone when you were answering natures call ?
The issue is, the bin lorry carried "waste paper". The nature of that waste is it enters a recycling process.
I would imagine that sorting process would have discovered the body of a man had he been in there.
Adding that to "the weight of the lifted bin" and it would be highly unlikely that Corrie was in the bin.
More likely is probabilities would be
# The phone was in the bin
# The phone and Corrie travelled in the same direction as the bin lorry later did (or earlier did).
And this is a "time critical" event.
Either Corrie and his phone OR just his phone moved from that area within a "55 minute" window. Actually, as the "last ping" data moved five minutes forward, then it "an hour" window.
As we haven't a clue as to what happened, we have to explain "why did the phone remain in that area for an hour" ?
One explanation could be, it was in the bin. And that bin was collected within that critical time frame.
That suggestion gives you a couple of things to work on.
Taking that "whole issue" and asking "why are the unidentified people only picked up on cameras that are not run by the council" leads you to another thought.
Corrie could have moved from that area unseen. He also could have been moved unseen. It depends which way you look at it.
As this would be "by fluke" rather than "by design", I go with "someone removed him unseen".