The mother of a toddler who disappeared in Greece 32 years ago is calling on the police to check if the body found in Germany is her son.
Little Ben Needham was playing in his grandparents’ country house on the Greek island of Kos when he disappeared on July 24, 1991.
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Ben was only 21 months old when he disappeared from a farm in KosCredit: PA
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32 years later his mother Kerry hasn’t stopped looking for himCredit: PA: Press Association
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Kerry wants police to investigate discovery of young man’s body in GermanyCredit: Interpol
British police believe Ben was killed in a tragic accident by a digger driver near the farm.
But the failure to find Ben’s body has fueled speculation about what exactly happened to him.
Now his mother, Kerry Needham, 51, has alerted South Yorkshire Police to an Interpol appeal to identify the child’s body found in the River Danube, reports The Mirror.
Kerry said: “I hope our British police will look into this and contact the German police about this. We have to turn it off.
“I’ve always said all along that I don’t believe he’s dead.”
Interpol last week released a reconstruction of the boy, who was 3 feet 6 inches tall and had brown hair.
They believe that the small child, whose body was wrapped in foil and weighed down with a stone slab, may have been trafficked.
Kerry, from Sheffield, said: “The reconstruction looks like Ben. I never realized how widespread and massive child trafficking is.
“This week I spoke to a man who was smuggled out of Greece in the 1950s. This is still happening in Greece today, but very underground.”
Ben disappeared more than three decades ago while playing in his grandparents’ farmhouse.
Kerry had recently moved to Kos from Sheffield, to start a new life with her family, when tragedy struck.
She left her son with her grandparents while she went to work, not knowing she would never see him again.
Ben was in and out of the house – a farmhouse the family was renovating – when the toddler was discovered missing at around 2.30pm.
At first, Ben’s family began searching the area for the little one, assuming he had wandered off or that Kerry’s teenage brother Stephen had taken him out for a ride on his moped.
However, there was no sign of Ben and eventually the search for him was expanded.
Police efforts to dig up the dirt at the farmhouse have failed to uncover remains, although it is reportedly their “professional belief” that Ben died when he was accidentally run over by a digger driver.
South Yorkshire Police sent their own team to the island twice, the last time after a witness came forward to say that before his death, digger driver Konstantinos “Dino” Barkas, who has since died, had confessed to killing Ben.
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