Kerry Needham, the mother of a child named Ben Needham who disappeared in 1989 in Greece, has taken a surprising turn of events.
Needham, the British boy’s mother, said publicly that after a British police force told her they would no longer pursue her son’s case, she was left heartbroken.
Ben, originally from Sheffield, was 21 months old when he disappeared on the Greek island of Kos in the summer of 1991.
He lived on a farm with his grandparents.
At the time, her mother worked at a hotel on the island, and even though 35 years have passed, she is still searching for answers.
Needham, in an interview with The mirrorsaid it had been informed by South Yorkshire Police’s major crime unit that it was no longer handling the case, handing responsibility for future investigations to Greek police.
“This is devastating news,” she told the outlet. Adding: “The case will now come solely to the Greek authorities. If that happens, I feel like I might as well give up the search for Ben because the Greek police always wanted this case to go away.”
In another development, the SYP said Greek authorities “have full primacy over the investigation” but continue to “allocate resources to Ben’s case, in the form of a family liaison officer and a detective acting as a single point of contact”, according to The Independent.
Needham is now urging people to contact the SYP and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to ask that the case not be closed forever until she gets the answers.
She said: “No parent should ever be forced to stop looking for their child and I never will. »
