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Laura Foster/BBC / Nicola Urquhart spoke to the BBC for the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of her son, Corrie Mckeague "We definitely did all we could and I can honestly sleep at night knowing there was nothing I physically could have done any different." It is 10 years since Nicola Urquhart's son, Corrie Mckeague, disappeared on 24 September 2016 after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. For the months and years that followed, she embodied a mother's love and determination to find the truth: to never give up. The RAF gunner's body has never been found but he was officially declared dead in 2022, when an inquest ruled he had died after climbing into a commercial waste bin before it was tipped into a waste lorry. Nicola is composed and reflective as she recalls when her son went missing. He had just turned 23 and within months would become a dad. She says her son would be forever in her thoughts, but adds: "I've given myself closure; my son is dead." She spoke to the BBC after what would have been Corrie's 33rd birthday and ahead of the 10th anniversary of his disappearance. She says she last saw her son when she went for a birthday meal with him at Cheers in Bury St Edmunds, adding he was a "social hand grenade" who "really did live every moment at a hundred miles an hour". A decade on, she says there is "never an end" to losing somebody but it is about "managing each day". 'The anniversary is difficult but we try to be positive' Nicola Urquhart / Nicola says she "definitely wouldn't have got through" the loss of her son Corrie without the support of her family "Every time I drive up a road, as I'm driving I still look at the verges, I can't stop myself," says Nicola. "The anniversary is difficult, but we will still try to be positive about it and the universe makes us remember it and generally in a really nice way. "We are fine, but that is a conscious, deliberate effort to be fine because it would be a disservice to his memory if we just shut down and didn't make the best of our lives. "In every single way that you can think, there is not one day, one decision, that doesn't go by without Corrie being at the forefront of it," she adds. The Horseshoe area where Corrie vanished was surrounded by food outlets such as Greggs and McDonald's Airman Corrie, who was based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, had enjoyed a night out drinking when he was thrown out of a nightclub and became separated from his friends. He then went to buy burgers, a kebab and chips, with CCTV captured at 01:20 BST showing him clutching a takeaway as he staggered through the town. After sleeping in a shop doorway for an hour, Corrie disappeared from the view of cameras on Brentgovel Street at 03:25 into an area known as the Horseshoe. He was never seen again. What followed was a huge search and rescue mission, which cost Suffolk Police more than £2m, captivated the country and fuelled conspiracy theorists. It culminated in the excavation of a landfill site at Milton, Cambridgeshire, which lasted several months but found nothing. Suffolk Police / The moment Corrie walked into an area in central Bury St Edmunds known as the Horseshoe. He was never seen again On 22 March 2022, after nearly six years of speculation, inquest jurors provided an explanation for Corrie's disappearance. Delivering a narrative conclusion they said he died at about 04:20 BST as a result of "compression asphyxia in association with multiple injuries". These injuries, they ruled, were suffered after Corrie, from Dunfermline, Fife, had climbed into a commercial waste bin - something he had used before as somewhere to sleep - before it was tipped into a refuse truck. During the inquest, Suffolk Coroner's Court heard that 30 tonnes of force was exerted during each compaction cycle in the back of a bin lorry and so the chances of someone surviving were "slim". 'We have a mini Corrie to remind us of him' Supplied / Corrie with his girlfriend, April Oliver, with whom he had a daughter, Ellie While Nicola, a former Police Scotland sergeant, accepts the final judgement, she says only she could truly decide when she could achieve a sense of closure. "No one thing externally can give me closure. The only thing that can give me closure is myself saying, have I done everything I can?" she says. "We definitely did all we could and I can honestly sleep at night knowing there was nothing I physically could have done any different." Family Photo / RAF airman Corrie was said to be a "heavy sleeper when drunk" Corrie's nine-year-old daughter Ellie, who was born nine months after he went missing, has also been a blessing, Nicola says. She adds her son lives on through her "lovely, happy and well-behaved" granddaughter. "She's just like her dad, it's frightening; she looks so much like him, she's got his mannerisms, she's adorable, athletic, sporty," she says. "It's so lovely having a little mini Corrie to remind us of him, she is the very best of him, and she's a very lucky little girl, in some respects, with the family that she's got. "It is fantastic having Ellie in our lives - it genuinely is just a little bit of Corrie." PA/Stefan Rousseau / Corrie's mum never gave up in the search for her son Nicola says Corrie's family are doing "so many little things" to ensure Ellie is constantly reminded of her dad in the best and most "positive way". They include going to the Cenotaph in London on Remembrance Day every year and enjoying her dad's favourite activities, such as going to watch Wicked the Musical. One day, Nicola adds, Ellie will be presented with a special gift that once belonged to her car-loving dad Corrie. "[Corrie's brother] Darroch got his MG car that was on the base and spent a lot of time trying to get the car back on the road again," adds Nicola, who lives in Scotland. "The car is going to Ellie - whether it will still be running when she can drive, I do not know, but she's going to be the one that has his car. "She's got a father figure, who i

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中文标题： 科里·麦基格的母亲：“我们已尽力寻找他”

Nicola Urquhart 的儿子、英国皇家空军炮手 Corrie Mckeague 于2016年9月24日在伯里圣埃德蒙兹夜出后失踪。遗体从未找到，2022年被正式宣告死亡；死因调查裁定他爬入商业垃圾桶后被倒入垃圾车死亡。其母在失踪10周年之际称，她已给自己一个了结，并说家人努力积极面对。

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/24 13:47:24