According to emerging reports, police investigating the Needham case have interviewed a Roma gypsy family whom they feel are 'significant' to the development of the enquiry.
24 years to the day that 21-month-old Ben went missing on the island of Kos, police, who were granted funding of £700,000 by the Home Office to support Greek authorities working on the case, have interviewed a family in a camp on mainland Greece.
Following a highly-publicised appeal by Ben's family in May of this year, British police asserted they would return to the country of Ben's disappearance in order to follow up certain lines of enquiry.
Commenting on the recent significant development, Detective Inspector Jon Cousins said: "We need to find out the truth as to whether they had any involvement. We put across to them information we had, and they gave us their view. It’s the first time that’s been done."
In addition to interviewing the aforementioned family, police have also spent time interviewing the prisoner who is understood to have alerted authorities to the possibility that the Roma family were involved in the child's 1991 disappearance.
In honour of Ben, his devastated but determined family have initiated a social media campaign which they hope will raise awareness of his case.
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