An RAF serviceman who went missing in September is due to become a father, his partner has revealed.
April Oliver said she discovered she was pregnant with Corrie McKeague’s child two weeks after he disappeared following a night out in Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk.
“I’ve had to make a massive decision by myself. I was hoping and praying that he’d come back so we could make the decision together,” she said.
In an interview with the BBC, Oliver, 21, said she wanted to talk about her pregnancy so that she could focus on looking after herself and her baby. “Most people only tell their close friends but I’m faced with a decision where I need to tell near enough the whole UK,” she said.
“It’s hard and it’s going to add another level of stress I don’t really need but it’s something that has to be done. It’s incredibly difficult to bounce my head from the excitement of a new baby to what we’re actually trying to focus on, which is finding Corrie.”
Mckeague, who is 23 and from Fife, in Scotland, has been described as a “social hand grenade” by his mother Nicola Urquhart, who said her son would “put himself at risk because [he] believed he could handle himself”.
Urquhart, who went with Oliver for the scan, has said she fears someone else was involved in her son’s disappearance, though police said the had found no evidence to suggest that was the case.
“He’s not so much a social butterfly, more a social hand grenade who absolutely lives for the moment. He will make choices and decisions that are sometimes reckless that other people might not.
“Would he get into a stranger’s car? Yes. Would he go to a stranger’s house that he’s never met before that he’s met on a social dating site? Yes,” she said during a question and answer session on Facebook Live last month.
Speaking to the BBC, Oliver called her partner an “absolute gentleman”. She said: “He’s just the sweetest and most outgoing person I’ve ever known. There is nothing I would love more than for him to walk through the door and say ‘I’m back’.”
She flew back from a holiday in the US when she heard that he had gone missing. “I was concerned. I knew it was out of character. I was quite worried.”
