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Search for Corrie McKeague grinds to sudden halt
17 March 2017
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Nicola Urquhart, 48, said: "The search team were stood down first thing this morning as the excavator has broken down.
"Work will hopefully resume on Monday."
Corrie McKeagues dad praises police search team on hands and knees at Milton landfill site
17 March 2017
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Making a second visit to the site in Milton with his wife, 48-year-old Martin issued a statement on Thursday to express his gratitude.
We had the honour of meeting and shaking the hands of another five members of the police search team, who will be rotating into the existing team of eight men and women who are raking through the rubbish there and looking for my son, he wrote.
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Martin added: These police officers are managing to sift through 80 tonnes of rubbish per day, sometimes on their hands and knees, to ensure no detail is missed.
"Make no mistake; this is a high-risk crime scene with 24-hour security around the site, which means you need a small specially-trained team to ensure no evidence is contaminated.
For this reason, you couldnt simply bring in a large gung-ho group with heavy machinery everywhere. This is a forensic search, like an excavation, to be treated delicately and with care.
Insisting he would do anything to be out there with them, Martin went on to say: This is not classed as a low-risk search, where you can bring in volunteers, and search areas where this is very little if any chance of finding Corrie there. Those tend to become like media spectacles with little or no value.
Whats also important to remember is how the search has arrived at this point, in this wasteland.
If it werent for the incredible efforts of the Suffolk police force and their persistence in going over and over the data - even as other serious lines of enquiry continued - the human error in the calculation of the weight of the bin that likely carried Corrie here may never have been found.
Corries dad pays heartfelt tribute to cops sifting 80 tonnes of rubbish a day
17 March 2017
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Martin McKeague thanked Suffolk police officers for their efforts to find the missing 23-year-old saying no words could describe how indebted his family were to them.
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Im humbled by their efforts, and the words to describe how indebted we are to these people escape me.
It was a very emotional day for us and its not getting any easier. I cant believe the incredible progress this team has made from last week to this week.
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And to avoid any confusion whatsoever, the Suffolk police have confirmed that none of the information provided by private investigation agency McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) who were employed with publicly crowdfunded money has led to the search of this landfill site, nor has the information provided by MIS told the police anything they didnt already know.
Now, if Trisha and I had at any time felt, even for a moment, that the landfill site should have been searched sooner based on the information that was available at the time, then we would have been the first to say this to them, and shared those sentiments with you. But this was not the case.
17 March 2017
[...]
Nicola Urquhart, 48, said: "The search team were stood down first thing this morning as the excavator has broken down.
"Work will hopefully resume on Monday."
Corrie McKeagues dad praises police search team on hands and knees at Milton landfill site
17 March 2017
[...]
Making a second visit to the site in Milton with his wife, 48-year-old Martin issued a statement on Thursday to express his gratitude.
We had the honour of meeting and shaking the hands of another five members of the police search team, who will be rotating into the existing team of eight men and women who are raking through the rubbish there and looking for my son, he wrote.
[...]
Martin added: These police officers are managing to sift through 80 tonnes of rubbish per day, sometimes on their hands and knees, to ensure no detail is missed.
"Make no mistake; this is a high-risk crime scene with 24-hour security around the site, which means you need a small specially-trained team to ensure no evidence is contaminated.
For this reason, you couldnt simply bring in a large gung-ho group with heavy machinery everywhere. This is a forensic search, like an excavation, to be treated delicately and with care.
Insisting he would do anything to be out there with them, Martin went on to say: This is not classed as a low-risk search, where you can bring in volunteers, and search areas where this is very little if any chance of finding Corrie there. Those tend to become like media spectacles with little or no value.
Whats also important to remember is how the search has arrived at this point, in this wasteland.
If it werent for the incredible efforts of the Suffolk police force and their persistence in going over and over the data - even as other serious lines of enquiry continued - the human error in the calculation of the weight of the bin that likely carried Corrie here may never have been found.
Corries dad pays heartfelt tribute to cops sifting 80 tonnes of rubbish a day
17 March 2017
[...]
Martin McKeague thanked Suffolk police officers for their efforts to find the missing 23-year-old saying no words could describe how indebted his family were to them.
[...]
Im humbled by their efforts, and the words to describe how indebted we are to these people escape me.
It was a very emotional day for us and its not getting any easier. I cant believe the incredible progress this team has made from last week to this week.
[...]
And to avoid any confusion whatsoever, the Suffolk police have confirmed that none of the information provided by private investigation agency McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) who were employed with publicly crowdfunded money has led to the search of this landfill site, nor has the information provided by MIS told the police anything they didnt already know.
Now, if Trisha and I had at any time felt, even for a moment, that the landfill site should have been searched sooner based on the information that was available at the time, then we would have been the first to say this to them, and shared those sentiments with you. But this was not the case.