The mother of missing Ben Needham believes that new evidence in her son’s case points to a ‘massive cover-up’.
Kerry Needham made the claims today, after authorities revealed that they have found signs of blood on a sandal and a toy car believed to have belonged to Ben.
Ben went missing while staying at his grandparents’ farmhouse in Kos, Greece, 26 years ago. He was just 21 months old at the time.
A search of the site where Ben went missing turned up the sandal, in 2012; and the toy car, shortly after. It led the police to believe that Ben was killed in an accident involving a digger, which was being operated in the area by the since deceased Konstantinos Barkas.
While South Yorkshire police claim that blood samples have been identified on the sandal and toy, further testing is required before it can be positively or negatively linked to Ben.
Kerry, who has never given up the search for Ben, shared her thoughts on the latest information with the Daily Mirror. She believes that it all points towards one probability: that Ben was killed in an accident, and his body was moved before the police searches.
“That proves it to me without doubt – they obviously moved him and buried him and, for whatever reason, dug him up. There’s no other explanation,” she said.
“This confirms what the police have been saying all along. My Ben was killed in an accident. But it also suggests that not only did they kill my boy and bury him where the toy car was found, they then moved him before police got to the site last October.
Adding that she is ’99.9 percent sure’ that the toy car found was Ben’s, Kerry added: “You can sort of forgive an accident in time, but when somebody takes that further and starts picking up a dead child and moving his remains again, it’s monstrous behaviour.
“God knows where he is. He could be in the bottom of the Aegean Sea, for all I know. It’s really sick.”
Kerry has repeated appeals for information to locate Ben throughout the years, supported by daughter Leighanna.
A number of men have also come forward over the years, claiming that they might be Ben and offering to give DNA tests.
Kerry has always insisted that she will ‘never’ give up hope on finding her son alive.
We are thinking of Kerry and the Needham family at this time.
