The mother of Corrie McKeague, a missing RAF serviceman, has revealed that he and his girlfriend had been using a partner-swapping website called Fab Swingers.
Mr McKeague, 23, has not been seen since September when he vanished after being asked to leave a nightclub in the centre of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
His disappearance triggered a huge manhunt but despite extensive searches and examination of thousands of hours of footage from the 61 closed-circuit television cameras in the town centre no trace of him has been found.
Mr McKeague’s mother, Nicola Urquhart, disclosed in a post on Facebook that he and his girlfriend, April Oliver, 21, had been using the swingers’ website. She said that the couple had been together for five months before his disappearance but both had been seeing other partners.
Last week Miss Oliver said that she was pregnant with Mr McKeague’s child. He was not aware of her pregnancy at the time of his disappearance.
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The post on the Find Corrie Facebook page said: “April has asked me to post this on the page. Corrie and April were on dating sites, they are young and were enjoying themselves. They were both seeing other people, this has not been hidden. April and Corrie had a Fab Swingers account, to the haters, get over it. This is none of your business.”
Mrs Urquhart said that she could have deleted her son’s account but it was more important for police to follow every possible lead. She said there was not believed to be any link between his disappearance and his use of the website. She added: “What was far more important than a little embarrassment was that the police were informed immediately and given every ability to ensure this did not have anything to do with Corrie’s disappearance.
“There are things about Corrie’s life that he wishes people would just leave alone . . . we know it has nothing to do with the investigation and I realise I am predominantly feeding the haters.”
Mr McKeague was last seen on closed-circuit television at 3.25am on September 24 entering a cul-de-sac behind a branch of Greggs bakery. His mobile phone signal went dead several hours later in a village eight miles from Bury.
Suffolk police said that they were aware of his activities on social media.