![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/boys-body-found-in-river-is-not-missing-toddler-ben-needham-dna-testing-confirms/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_Missing-British-Toddler-Ben-Needham.jpg&description=Ben Needham's mum, Kerry, had been waiting anxiously for news after she was alerted to an appeal for information after German police found remains in the River Danube A DNA sample from the boy's body discovered in Germany does not match Ben Needham, police have revealed. Ben's mum had been waiting anxiously for news after she was alerted to an appeal for information after German police found remains in the River Danube. They found the remains last year but were convinced the boy was not German. Now Kerry has been told the DNA does not match Ben's which was sent for comparison. A statement said: "South Yorkshire Police, supported by Europol, has received confirmation that a DNA sample of the body found in the River Danube in Germany does not match that of Ben Needham. "Ben's family has been informed and are being supported. Our thoughts remain with the young boy who is yet to be identified and, of course, the Needham family who continue in their search for answers." Interpol previously said the unidentified boy was found wrapped in foil in the River Danube, weighed down with a flagstone slab on 19 May 2022. The international police agency published details of the case in hopes of finding the boy's name and determining "the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death". He was around 3ft 6ins tall and weighed around two stone four lbs with brown hair and type O blood. Interpol DNA Database Manager Francois-Xavier Laurent earlier said: "We can now assume that this boy was probably not German." Ben was just 21 months old when he vanished from the Greek island of Kos on July 24, 1991. He was last seen playing near his maternal grandparents' holiday home in the village of Iraklis and had been spotted in and around the farmhouse that the family was renovating before they realised he had disappeared at around 2.30pm. Since Ben's disappearance, there have been more than 300 reported sightings of the toddler.){kind=link}
Ben Needham’s mum, Kerry, had been waiting anxiously for news after she was alerted to an appeal for information after German police found remains in the River Danube
A DNA sample from the boy’s body discovered in Germany does not match Ben Needham, police have revealed.
Ben’s mum had been waiting anxiously for news after she was alerted to an appeal for information after German police found remains in the River Danube. They found the remains last year but were convinced the boy was not German.
Now Kerry has been told the DNA does not match Ben’s which was sent for comparison. A statement said: “South Yorkshire Police, supported by Europol, has received confirmation that a DNA sample of the body found in the River Danube in Germany does not match that of Ben Needham.
“Ben’s family has been informed and are being supported. Our thoughts remain with the young boy who is yet to be identified and, of course, the Needham family who continue in their search for answers.”