Ben Needham: Stays of boy present in river should not German, DNA consultants reveal as lacking British toddler’s mom Kerry says she is ‘happy’ case is being investigated

Stays of a boy discovered lifeless in a river in Germany – who Ben Needham’s mom believes might be her lacking son – should not from that nation, DNA testing has confirmed.

Interpol says it has been flooded with results in the identification of the physique that was found after Kerry Needham, whose toddler son vanished in Greece 32 years in the past, mentioned the kid seemed just like her personal.

Her feedback suggesting investigators look into whether or not the physique might be Ben sparked widespread media protection and resulted in dozens of tipoffs.

Interpol DNA Database Supervisor Francois-Xavier Laurent mentioned: ‘We now have obtained 33 hints from the general public.

‘We will now assume that this boy was in all probability not German.’

Investigators are at the moment evaluating all the data they obtained.

Kerry Needham, 51, knowledgeable South Yorkshire Police of an Interpol enchantment to determine the physique of a boy discovered within the River Danube in Bavaria in Could 2022

Ben Needham vanished whereas he was staying at his grandparents’ farmhouse on the Greek island of Kos on July 24, 1991

Interpol launched a reconstruction of the boy discovered within the the River Danube close to Grossmehring in Bavaria on Could 19, 2022

Kerry advised the Mirror: “I’m happy they’re trying into it. Each risk needs to be investigated and dominated out. Our hope is that someday one piece of data will come ahead which can uncover the reality.” 

The boy, believed to be aged 5 to 6, was discovered wrapped in foil and weighed down with a flagstone slab. It’s not recognized how lengthy the physique was within the water.

Within the Interpol Black Discover, the organisation mentioned it was ‘searching for the general public’s assist in figuring out a deceased boy and to find out the suspicious circumstances surrounding his demise.’

Interpol additionally revealed a graphic reconstruction of the boy’s head.

The blue-eyed boy staring out of the picture is described as between 5 and 6 years outdated.

The outline went on: ‘The boy is regarded as aged between 5 and 6. He was roughly 110 cm (43.3 in) tall and 15 kg (2.36 st), with brown hair and blood sort 0.’

The invention of the unidentified physique got here greater than three a long time after Ms Needham’s son vanished whereas he was staying at his grandparents’ farmhouse on the Greek island of Kos on July 24, 1991.

When an image exhibiting how Ben would look aged 31 was launched on July 23, 2021 Ms Needham revealed that she didn’t imagine the police principle that he was killed by a digger.

The picture was created by Nationwide Crime Company listed forensic artist Tim Widden.

Ms Needham mentioned ‘we should maintain looking out’ forward of the thirtieth anniversary of his disappearance on July 24, 1991. 

Police imagine Ben died on the day he went lacking because of an accident involving ‘heavy equipment’ as he performed exterior his grandparent’s home, however his mom believes her son remains to be alive.

She advised the Day by day Mirror in 2021: ‘I nonetheless have that hope that South Yorkshire Police are flawed.

An image exhibiting how Ben would look aged 31 was launched on July 23, 2021 

‘And whereas there isn’t a proof to indicate me, I’ve to imagine he’s nonetheless alive. There’s not a single thread of proof to say in any other case.’

She added that she feels ‘caught’ in 1991 and has devoted three a long time to the search of her son. 

She mentioned: ‘I’ve by no means had any desires or targets aside from discovering Ben.’

Ms Needham had moved from Sheffield to begin a brand new life together with her household in Greece and left her son together with his grandparents whereas she went to work, however by no means noticed him once more.

South Yorkshire Police twice despatched a crew to Kos. The second police go to adopted a witness coming ahead to say that, earlier than his demise, digger driver Konstantinos ‘Dino’ Barkas confessed to killing Ben.

Police digs on land on the farmhouse did not uncover stays and exams on a toy automobile and scrap of leather-based sandal didn’t discover a DNA match with Ben. 

This made Ms Needham doubt the digger principle, with the distraught mom including that ‘issues do not add up’.

South Yorkshire Police Officers excavating and looking for Ben’s stays 

Police formally ended a search on the Greek island in October 2016, saying they imagine Ben died because of an accident involving a digger on July 24, 1991

Showing on Good Morning Britain, Ms Needham wiped away tears as she spoke about attempting to remain robust throughout the police search in 2016

Detectives from South Yorkshire Police carried out a three-week search of Kos in 2016.

Talking on the time, then-Detective Inspector Jon Cousins mentioned: ‘My crew and I do know that equipment, together with a big digger, was used to clear an space of land on 24 July 1991, behind the farmhouse that was being renovated by the Needhams.

‘It’s my skilled perception that Ben Needham died because of an accident close to to the farmhouse in Iraklis the place he was final seen taking part in.

‘The occasions main as much as and following that incident have been explored by my crew of consultants to nice lengths. The truth that now we have not had a direct end result throughout this go to to Kos doesn’t preclude the info that we all know to be true.’

He mentioned the investigation wouldn’t shut and new info can be checked out, including: ‘We won’t cease in our quest to search out additional solutions for Ben’s household.’

In September 2018, Ms Needham was advised by forensic consultants in Oxford that they had discovered weak DNA profile from decomposed blood contained in the automobile close to to the place Ben went lacking.

She offered a DNA pattern, solely to be advised there was no optimistic match.

Ben’s mom Kerry holding up a clipping of the tragic story in 1991

Police digs on land on the farmhouse did not uncover stays and exams on a toy automobile and scrap of leather-based sandal didn’t discover a DNA match with Ben

On the time, Ms Needham mentioned: ‘If that blood will not be Ben’s – then who does it belong to? It is devastating. We had constructed ourselves up pondering it could be a optimistic end result and would show Ben had died.

‘It might have given us closure and we might have been in a position to begin the grieving course of.

‘When it got here again damaging it was a shock. I do not know what to suppose now. Is Ben lifeless or is he nonetheless alive?’

She added: ‘I am offended and I can not cease shaking my head.

‘Some individuals on Kos have been mendacity for 27 years and we have suffered years of torture, gradual torture.’