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A body found in a wood in Suffolk does not belong to missing Fife airman Corrie McKeague.

The body was discovered in Brandon Wood on Sunday, leading to speculation it may have belonged to the 23-year-old, who went missing after a night out in Bury St Edmonds on September 24 last year.

Police have been searching the Milton landfill site for Mr McKeague’s body.

His mother Nicola Urquhart posted on the Find Corrie Facebook page: “It is with great sadness I find myself writing another message like this again.

“I do not know the details, only that the person found yesterday in Brandon woods is not Corrie. My thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies are with their family and loved ones x”

A spokeswoman for Suffolk Constabulary confirmed the body was did not belong to Corrie.

She said: “It was a woman’s body. There are no suspicious circumstances.

“We are still at the Milton landfill site.”

Officers from Suffolk and Norfolk police have been searching for the 23-year-old since last year.

The Dunfermline-born RAF serviceman vanished while on a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds on September 24.

It later emerged a bin lorry held waste heavy enough to have carried the RAF Honington gunner’s body.

Specialist officers are searching the landfill site and have already sifted through more than 4,430 tonnes of waste.

However, they have not yet found anything connected to Corrie.

Following Corrie’s disappearance, it emerged he had several active profiles on swinging websites, leading to theories his disappearance was linked to his sex life.

But Corrie’s father Martin McKeague, who has separated from Corrie’s mother, said he believes his son’s body will most likely be found on the landfill site.

In an interview he said: “I didn’t know about that side of him or that side of his life. I think because we had quite a bit of information given to us, the way I felt was this boy has gone missing and all I could only think was about what had happened to him.

“At the moment all the evidence points to the fact Corrie is at the landfill site.”‘But if someone knows something, anything, they need to tell police and if there is evidence, we will go there.

“I will do anything to get my son back,” said the Cupar resident.