THE mum of missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague has been forced to deny that her missing son was killed by his younger brother.

Nicola Urquhart, 47, issued a statement via the Find Corrie Facebook page to denounce the "surreal" claims made by sick trolls online.

5 Corrie McKeague has been missing since September after vanishing on a night out Credit: PA:Press Association

5 Trolls have since terrorised his mum Nicola by claiming his brother Darroch travelled from Dunfermline to Bury St Edmunds to kill him Credit: PA:Press Association

Corrie, originally from Dunfermline, Fife, went missing after a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds on September 24 last year and has not been seen since - leading to wild conspiracy theories on his disappearance appearing online.

Trolls have falsely claimed that Corrie, 23, was killed by his younger brother Darroch, 21, claiming online that he drove 404 miles from his home in Dunfermline, Fife, to Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk, to kill his sibling.

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Corrie’s uncle, Tony Wringe, a former serviceman, discredited the claims, describing the fact he had to do so as "somewhat surreal".

He wrote on the Find Corrie Facebook page: “In Nicola’s own words. For those that believe Darroch drove to Bury to kill or hide his brother: Darroch was in Dunfermline in his bed.

“This can be proved as his phone would be registered on the mast - talking to his brother on the Friday night.

“Darroch was then at his work at 0700 hours on the Saturday until 1700 hours. This can be corroborated by endless people and CCTV. It takes 7 hours to drive to Bury.”

5 Darroch, 21, has been falsely accused of killing his missing brother Credit: PA:Press Association

5 Corrie was an RAF gunner based in Honington, Suffolk

He added: “To those who support the pages and people that make comments like this about a 21-year-old who is missing his best friend and brother, words fail me.

“They don’t actually fail me, but it most certainly would not be dignified to write it.”

Tony said the family needed to comment because“there is a need to say it for one of the web forums which doesn’t seem to want to let fact get in the way of their theories”.

“Rather than go the libel route, we’ll just state it here publicly".

Darroch has taken part in live Facebook sessions to try to raise awareness of his brother’s disappearance.

The butcher had made plans to visit Corrie a month after his disappearance and the siblings planned to travel back to Scotland together.

5 Corrie was last seen in Bury St Edmunds on CCTV after leaving a nightclub Credit: EPA

Earlier this month, Corrie’s mum decided to make public the fact that he and his pregnant girlfriend, April Oliver, were members of a swingers’ website.

She took the step following open speculation on social media.

Corrie, who was based at RAF Honington, ten miles north of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, was last spotted on CCTV showing him walking alone after eating a takeaway.

He then fell asleep in a doorway and a search of his phone picked up a signal 13 miles away at a nearby landfill site.

His mum Nicola, who is an officer with Police Scotland, led her own unofficial search along with 100 volunteers, drones and dogs.

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