The father of missing airman Corrie McKeague has accepted his son is "gone" after police concluded he was buried in a landfill site.
Martin McKeague has laid flowers at the spot his son was last seen in Bury St Edmunds and said the family are planning to hold a private memorial.
Corrie McKeague was 23 when he vanished on a night out in the Suffolk town on September 24 2016 .
His father shared a statement from Suffolk Police which said that a Biffa bin picked up on the day Corrie went missing, in the area where he was last seen, weighed 116kg - much heavier than usual.
Police carried out a five-week search for Corrie McKeague at a landfill site in CambridgeshirePA Archive/PA ImagesPolice sent Mr McKeague a statement which said they believe that Corrie "came to be in the bin" in the early hours, which was later collected by a lorry and taken away.
"The police have confirmed the Biffa bin weight that suggests my son ended up in the Suffolk waste disposal system," wrote Mr McKeague. "They also confirmed that there is no new evidence whatsoever.
CCTV image showing the last place Mr McKeague was seen EPA"My son is gone and the McKeague family in Scotland will be holding a private memorial for him in the near future.
"Thank you all again for standing up and standing by us."
Corrie McKeague was an airman stationed at RAF Honington PAIt comes after a two year search for the missing airman, which involved combing a landfill site in Cambridgeshire for more than five weeks.
Martin McKeague held a vigil by the landfill site in Milton while officers searched for his son's body to no avail.
Police searching a landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, for RAF gunner Corrie McKeagueChris Radburn/PAIn March this year, Suffolk Police announced the case had been moved to the major investigation cold case team after deciding there were “no realistic lines of enquiry left to pursue”.
Corrie had been stationed at RAF Honington, around 10 miles from Bury St Edmunds.