![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/ben-needhams-disappearance-timeline-as-police-investigate-body-found-in-german-river/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_An-undated-handout-picture-released-by-t.jpg&description=Ben Needham disappeared from the Greek island of Kos in 1991 at the age of 21 months, and his mum Kerry has been searching for him ever since as she doesn't believe he's dead British police are investigating whether the body of a boy found in a German river could be missing tot Ben Needham after the boy's mum Kerry Needham alerted South Yorkshire Police to a fresh Interpol appeal to identify a young child's body found dumped in the River Danube over a year ago. Interpol DNA tracking experts have been called in to investigate the body - which was found last May in Grossmehring, Bavaria - and do not believe the boy is German. Now, Kerry, 51, wants British police to look into whether the boy could be her missing son, who vanished over 30 years ago in 1991, as "every possibility has to be investigated and ruled out". 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 2:30 pm. His mum had recently moved to Kos from Sheffield in the hopes of starting a new life with her family and was at work when the tragedy happened. At first, Ben's family began to search for the toddler nearby as they assumed he had simply wandered off, or that his teenage uncle Stephen had taken him out for a ride on his moped. When there was no sign of Ben nearby, the search was widened. Police efforts to dig the land at the farmhouse failed to uncover remains, although it was reportedly the police's "professional belief" that Ben may have been accidentally crushed by a digger that was on the property as part of the renovation works. In 2016, an item belonging to Ben was found by detectives searching for clues which led them to believe Ben had been involved in an "accident involving heavy machinery" on the day of his disappearance. Detecti){kind=link}
Ben Needham disappeared from the Greek island of Kos in 1991 at the age of 21 months, and his mum Kerry has been searching for him ever since as she doesn’t believe he’s dead
British police are investigating whether the body of a boy found in a German river could be missing tot Ben Needham after the boy’s mum Kerry Needham alerted South Yorkshire Police to a fresh Interpol appeal to identify a young child’s body found dumped in the River Danube over a year ago.
Interpol DNA tracking experts have been called in to investigate the body – which was found last May in Grossmehring, Bavaria – and do not believe the boy is German. Now, Kerry, 51, wants British police to look into whether the boy could be her missing son, who vanished over 30 years ago in 1991, as “every possibility has to be investigated and ruled out”.
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 2:30 pm.
His mum had recently moved to Kos from Sheffield in the hopes of starting a new life with her family and was at work when the tragedy happened. At first, Ben’s family began to search for the toddler nearby as they assumed he had simply wandered off, or that his teenage uncle Stephen had taken him out for a ride on his moped.