Missing Ben’s mum in new Christmas call
Appeal for islanders to reveal digger dump site
THE mum of missing Ben Needham is appealing for help from the people of Kos after a 27th heartbreaking Christmas without her son.
Kerry Needham is begging for everyone on the Greek island to search their memories in a bid to find her son’s body.
She said: “What will it take for someone to tell me what happened to him? Somebody must know. I can’t even grieve for him. I’m still in limbo.
“He’s obviously buried somewhere on that island and I would appeal to the good people of Kos to help me find him.
“I can’t move on. I think everybody wants me to give up but unfortunately I cannot do that without knowing where Ben is. I haven’t got a grave to visit.”
Kerry, 43, wants to know the “tipping sites” the digger driver – accused of killing her son by accident – may have used to hide her son’s body after he vanished, aged 21 months in July 1991.
South Yorkshire Police searched the area he was last seen. They believe Ben was killed by JCB operator Konstantinos “Dino” Barkas and his body may have been moved several times.
Decomposed blood was found in the soil, on part of a child’s leather sandal and in a toy car.
The sandal was found in 2012 at the digger site but the car surfaced elsewhere late last year.
Scientists are trying to extract DNA from these tiny samples.
Kerry, from Sheffield, added: “Anyone who knows where Dino dumped his rubble please tell police. We need to find out what contracts he was working on, and which hotels and then we can eliminate things.
“My investigation will never be finished until I find Ben.”