Lacking Ben Needham’s mom seeks solutions after boy’s physique present in river

The mom of Ben Needham, the British toddler who disappeared from a Greek island greater than 30 years in the past, has urged UK police to launch an investigation after a boy’s physique was present in a German river.

Kerry Needham, who has by no means accepted her son is lifeless, has contacted South Yorkshire Police after seeing an Interpol enchantment geared toward figuring out the kid, whose physique was apparently dumped within the River Danube.

Ben, aged 21 months, went lacking on Kos in 1991 – and whereas the boy present in Bavaria in 2022 is considered between 5 and 6, Ms Needham, 51, nonetheless thinks UK officers must contact German counterparts.

She informed The Mirror: “I am hoping our British police will check this out and contact the German officers about this.

“We need to rule it out. I’ve always said all along that I don’t believe he’s died.”

In its enchantment, Interpol described the boy as 3ft 6 inches tall and weighing roughly 2st 4lbs.

He had brown hair, and the physique was wrapped in foil and weighed down with a heavy flagstone.

Interpol has additionally launched a digital reconstruction of the boy and consider he make have been trafficked – though it’s unclear how lengthy the physique had been within the water.

Ms Needham added: “The reconstruction has a look of Ben. I never realised how child trafficking is so rife and massive.

“I spoke to a man this week who was trafficked out of Greece in the 1950s.

“It is still happening today in Greece but very underground.”

Jurgen Stock, Interpol’s secretary normal, admitted it was “unusual to have a child’s body go unidentified for this long”.

“Through this Black Notice, INTERPOL is calling upon the global law enforcement community to cross-check databases and consult open or unsolved cases.”

“Someone, somewhere knows something about this boy, making it equally important to release certain details publicly.

“Whether he was the victim of trafficking, abduction or violence, we are committed to mobilizing all of INTERPOL’s policing capabilities to identify him and help investigators shed light on his death.”

South Yorkshire Police have a pattern of Ben’s DNA and carried out two digs in Kos in 2016, believeing toddler died on account of a digger accident, after which his physique was hidden.