The girlfriend of the missing RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague has given birth to a baby girl, she announced on Facebook.
April-Louise Oliver posted a picture on Sunday – Father’s Day – of her cradling the newborn in a hospital bed. She did not say when the baby was born. The image was captioned only with a heart and unicorn emoji.
McKeague, from Fife, vanished after a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds last year. He was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of 24 September walking into a horseshoe-shaped area in Brentgovel Street.
Police have been searching a landfill site for more than 14 weeks and have sifted through 4,000 tonnes of waste.
Oliver, from Downham Market, Norfolk, said she discovered she was pregnant with McKeague’s child two weeks after he disappeared.
At the time she said: “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.”
In May she wrote on Facebook about the mixed emotions she was feeling about her pregnancy and missing boyfriend. She wrote: “I miss and love Corrie with every part of my body and little things set off different emotions. I can’t help but be truly unconditionally in love with my baby and you’re not here yet.
“You bring so much pain yet just as much joy and your daddy would be proud of you my little one and would love you as much as I do. Corrie will be a part of both of us forever and no one can take that away.”
She was reportedly hospitalised two weeks ago as doctors feared the stresses of McKeague still being missing could harm the baby.
In a post on the Find Corrie Facebook page, the missing man’s mother Nicola Urquhart said: “We have finally welcomed this beautiful little lady into the world. She is absolutely perfect. I am so very proud of April for getting her here safely. Both mummy and baby are doing well. Thank you so much for all your love and support x x x.”
