Police to analyze if boy’s physique in German river is lacking Brit Ben Needham

Police have confirmed that they are going to be investigating a physique of a younger boy present in a German river to see whether it is toddler Ben Needham who disappeared greater than 30 years in the past.

Ben vanished whereas taking part in at his grandparents’ farmhouse in July 1991 on the Greek island of Kos in 1991 at simply 21 months outdated.

Distraught mom Kerry has been trying to find him ever since.

International police drive Interpol launched an attraction to determine the physique of a younger baby discovered by a canoeist within the River Danube in Bavaria greater than a yr in the past, which had been weighed down with a flagstone slab and wrapped in foil.

Ms Needham raised the attraction with British police, who’ve now confirmed they’ll examine.

Interpol DNA Database Manager Francois-Xavier Laurent instructed native media on September 5 that the company had obtained “33 hints from the public” concerning the physique.

He added: “We can now assume that this boy was probably not German.”

Interpol have revealed a graphic reconstruction of the boy’s head. He has blue eyes, and “is thought to be aged between five and six. He was approximately 110 cm (43.3 in) tall and 15 kg (2.36 st), with brown hair and blood type 0,” the company stated.

The investigators added: “The results of investigations indicate that he likely spent time outside of Germany.”

Missing Ben’s mom Kerry had urged South Yorkshire Police to contact Interpol over her son, insisting that it wanted to be “ruled out”.

She stated: “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.”

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

Interpol Secretary General Juergen Stock stated: “Through this Black Notice, Interpol is calling upon the global law enforcement community to cross-check databases and consult open or unsolved cases.”

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

“Whether he was the sufferer of trafficking, abduction or violence, we’re dedicated to mobilising all of Interpol’s policing capabilities to determine him and assist investigators make clear his demise.”

He added: “Members of the general public, notably those that bear in mind a lacking baby whose traits and disappearance point out a possible hyperlink to this case, are invited to contact the nationwide police workforce in Germany ought to they’ve any info.”

The investigation continues.