THE mum of RAF gunner Corrie McKeague has accused cops of failing to search key areas in their hunt for the missing airman.

Corrie vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, on September 24, 2016.

Police believed the RAF gunner, 23, from Dunfermline, got into a bin and was carried to a waste site 30 miles away. But the £2million hunt was shelved this year after police admitted having "no realistic lines of inquiry left to pursue".

Earlier this week Corrie's mum Nicola Urquhart, 49, revealed a lack of CCTV in the hours after he disappeared meant he could have walked or been driven from Bury St Edmunds.

In light of the new information she said "changes everything" she claimed her son did not climb into a bin and said his body was not in landfill.

Nicola, a Pc with Police Scotland, also said cops had only searched one side of the road [the right side] on the route from Bury St Edmunds to RAF Honington, where he had been stationed.

She also called for a new detailed search along a route she said her son took to Bury St Edmunds to avoid traffic.

Speaking to The Sun Online today Nicola said: "The police search has been massive. But what we’ve only just realised is that from Honington to Bury St Edmunds everything has been searched on one side of the road.

"But on the other side, it's not.

“I have a realistic expectation. I’ve never asked them to search the world. It’s places where there is intelligence to suggest that that would be a reasonable place to search."

She added: "I've gone along with the things the police have been looking at and it's only when people suggest things to me that I think 'how could I not have thought of that? I should have thought of that'.

"So then I'll speak to the police and they'll say, 'well, we've not thought of it either.'

"The last five days [since new information came to light] have been absolute hell for us because of everything we've been going through trying to sort it out with the police.

"We're living this every day. We're trying to carry on with our lives while we deal with all of this."

Last month, Corrie's father Martin Mckeague, 49, from Fife, said his son was "somewhere in the Suffolk waste disposal system", adding: "Corrie is no longer missing... after looking at all of the facts and evidence we now know what happened."

At the time Nicola insisted she had "not given up" the search for her son.

Police had managed to piece together some of his last movements, with CCTV footage showing him eating takeaway food at around 1.20am.

At 3.24am, he was spotted taking a nap in a nearby doorway before leaving the view of the camera in the last ever confirmed sighting.

Detectives investigating the airman's disappearance believe he climbed into a bin and was transported to a waste site around 30 miles away.

Specialist search teams spent 27 weeks scouring the landfill near Cambridge last year but found no trace of Corrie's remains.

He had been stationed at RAF Honington, about 10 miles from Bury St Edmunds.

No trace of him has been found, and the investigation was handed over to a cold case squad in March.

Responding to Nicola's comments, a spokesman for Suffolk Police said: "Whilst we have always remained open-minded, we continue to stand by what we have previously stated.

“The most likely scenario is that Corrie McKeague unfortunately went into the bin which was emptied into the Biffa lorry and consequently ended up in the waste process.

“We have come to this conclusion based on all of the evidence we have available to us, and not just the weight of the bin.

“There is nothing to suggest the 116 kilos the bin weighed on the night Corrie was last seen is inaccurate.

"Our investigation has been reviewed by an outside force and the review agreed that Suffolk Constabulary’s preferred hypothesis of what happened to Corrie was the most likely one given the evidence available.

“Suffolk Constabulary has previously stated that unless new, realistic and credible information becomes available then the investigation is complete. There is no information available at this time that changes the status of the investigation.”