Key witnesses in Ben Needham case claim boy found on Corfu beach may have been missing Brit sparking fresh police probe
KEY witnesses in the Ben Needham case claim a boy found on a Corfu beach may have been the missing toddler - sparking a fresh police probe.
Ben was playing at his grandparents' farmhouse on the Greek island of Kos when he disappeared on July 24, 1991.
Witnesses say that a blond boy found on a beach 587 miles away in Corfu could've been the youngster.
The boy was found wearing a white t-shirt, was speaking English and also "crying desperately".
He was found by a teenage female kitchen-hand, according to claims.
While Kerry refuses to believe Ben is dead, British police think the then 21-month-old boy was killed by a digger driver in a tragic accident at the farmhouse which Kerry’s parents were renovating,
This follows on from an artist impression of Ben that was distributed by police in 2013, revealing how he was expected to have looked as a young man.
Kerry had recently moved to Kos from Sheffield, to start a new life with her family, when the tragedy occurred.
She left him with her grandparents while she went to work, not realising that she would not see him again.
Police efforts to dig the land at the farmhouse failed to uncover remains, though it was reportedly their “professional belief” that Ben died when a digger driver accidentally ran over him.
South Yorkshire Police have twice sent a team of their own to the island, the latest time being after a witness came forward to say that before his death, digger driver Konstantinos “Dino” Barkas confessed to killing Ben.
While Kerry still did not accept the theory, she said things didn’t add up - such as DNA tests carried out on a toy found at the site, which did not match Ben’s.
Covid has, for now, thwarted her plan to return to Kos to make an appeal to the Greek public and meet the witness face-to-face.
Kerry was told that the witness, a business partner of Barkas, had claimed to have seen her son playing on a mound of soil in the morning of his disappearance.
The next day, he claimed Karkas told the witness he feared he may have run the boy over.
“I don’t know why he is claiming he saw Ben there in the morning because my mum didn’t walk up there with him until about 12.45am,” Kerry said.
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“If he is wrong about that, what else is he wrong about in his statement?
She was still waiting for the South Yorkshire Police to give her access to the witness statements and their report, she said, to aid her own personal quest to find the truth.