Monday 9 May 2022 09:02 PM Corrie McKeague's mother vows to 'make Biffa pay' after inquest rules ... trends now
The mother of Corrie McKeague has vowed to 'make Biffa pay' after an inquest ruled her RAF serviceman son was crushed to death when he climbed into one of their commercials bins on a boozy night out.
McKeague, 23, disappeared in the early hours of September 24, 2016, after being ejected from a night club in Bury St Edmunds.
The gunner was last seen on CCTV entering a service area behind a Greggs shop but his body was never found, with detectives believing his remains are located at a landfill site in Cambridgeshire.
Last month a £2 million inquest ruled the the airman had been crushed after climbing into the commercial bin.
It concluded there were ‘ineffective bin locks’, an ‘ineffective search of the bin’ before it was tipped, and ‘poor visibility through a Perspex viewing window on the lorry’.
McKeague's mother Nicola Urquhart, 52, went live on social media on Saturday to address her feelings towards the disposal company.
Nicola, a former police officer, has accepted the ruling but vowed to 'make Biffa pay' for its role in her son's death.
She said the amount of people that die in bins is ‘disgusting’ and believes there are simple measures that can be put into place to stop this.
The family of Corrie McKeague (left to right) Leah McElrea, brother Daroch McKeague, mother Nicola Urquhart, and brother Makayen McKeague, speaking to the media outside Suffolk Coroner's Court following the inquest
Corrie McKeague pictured with his girlfriend April Oliver. Tragically, the RAF gunner vanished before finding out she was pregnant
The bins in a service area behind a Greggs shop in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, which Corrie McKeague was last seen entering on CCTV
A CCTV still released by Suffolk Constabulary in the hours before he went missing following a night out
The mother detailed how she was left shocked after visiting the same area last month, where her son was last seen, and discovering that the bins in that area still did not have locks on them.
Ms Urquhart, from Dunfermline, also revealed that she found out information at last month's inquest that she had not been told by police.
Speaking to 105,000 members of the Find Corrie Facebook group, Nicola said: 'My biggest problem, and the reason I feel I won’t get an answer to this, is Biffa.
'The way they have personally treated us as a family. This is Biffa, I am not talking about the bin driver.
'Right when my son first went missing, myself and my sons all came down to Suffolk.
'The very first conversation I had heard the police press officer saying, it wasn’t something I was supposed to listen to, I heard her saying to the senior investigating officer at the time Biffa had requested that we not mention them in this press conference.
'I made sure that the first thing I mentioned in that press conference was Biffa. What were they so bothered about? I do now know.
'The amount of people that die needlessly in bins is disgusting and there is something that they can do about that and it is quite simple.'
She said she was glad the chief coroner has written a Prevention of Future Deaths report in which he 'stated very clearly Biffa's failings'.
Ms Urquhart continued: 'I will be doing everything to make Biffa pay for this.
'I found this out at the inquest, it was eight weeks after Corrie went missing that they carried out a forensic investigation inside the bin that they believe he went in. Even at that it cannot be guaranteed that it was
