Bin lorry driver saw ‘smartly-dressed’ man in pink shirt, McKeague inquest told

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I thought, ‘He’s a smartly-dressed chap, he’s been on a night out’,” Mr Thompson said. Asked if there was anyone inside the bin, he replied: “No, there wasn’t.” Mr Taheri asked if Mr Thompson gave the bin a “good enough kick to rouse anyone inside”, and Mr Thompson replied: “Absolutely, yes.” Asked if he would be surprised to hear that there was “more than 100kg” in the bin, Mr Thompson replied: “Yes.” Mr Taheri asked Mr Thompson if he stood by his description that there was not much in the bin, to which he replied: “I do.” Lawyer Matthew Holdcroft, for Suffolk Police, told Mr Thompson: “The part of your account we reject is that you looked inside the bin.” Mr Holdcroft said that the time taken for the bin lorry to enter and leave the service area was 51 seconds. Mr Thompson disagreed with Mr Holdcroft’s suggestion that he “simply didn’t have the time to look in the bin”. Mr Holdcroft suggested to Mr Thompson: “You didn’t take any care whatsoever.” The bin lorry driver replied: “No, I did.” After he finished giving his evidence, Mr Thompson addressed members of Mr McKeague’s family who attended the hearing, including his father Martin McKeague, mother Nicola Urquhart, brothers Darroch and Makeyan, and his girlfriend April Oliver, who discovered she was pregnant with Mr McKeague’s baby daughter after he vanished.