Kerry Needham, mother of a toddler named Ben Needham, who disappeared in 1989 in Greece, has now had a surprising twist.
Needham, the mother of the British toddler, said publicly that after a British police force told her it would no longer pursue her son’s case, she was devastated.
Ben, who came 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 was employed at a hotel on the island, and even though 35 years have passed, she is still looking for answers.
Needham, in an interview with The mirrorsaid she was informed by South Yorkshire Police’s Major Crimes Unit that it is no longer pursuing the case and is placing responsibility for future investigations on Greek police.
“This is devastating news,” she told the newspaper. Adding: “The case will now fall solely to the Greek authorities. If this happens, I feel I might as well give up the search for Ben because the Greek police have only wanted this case to go away.”
In a separate development, SYP said the Greek authorities “have full priority over the investigation” but it continues “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,” per 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 stop looking for their child and I never will.”
