Possible New Lead in Ben Needham Case: He May Have Been Crushed by JCB

Its been 25 years since the 21-month-old toddler Ben Needham went missing on the Greek island of Kos.

Since July 24, 1991 the family of the toddler has yet to receive any concrete answers as to what happened to their son.

After an recent appeal to the Greek public for any information regarding the stalled case, police received some 200 calls with tips and traveled from South Yorkshire to Kos where they spoke to a new witness who has stepped forward claiming that the young boy may have been victim to being crushed by his friend, Konstantinos Barkas, a JCB digger. He claims Barkas was digging at a nearby construction site where the toddler allegedly wandered to from his grandparents home and was crushed by the JCB.

Barkas died last year from stomach cancer.

According to the Mirror, special teams have been deployed to dig in the sites mentioned by the witness, who said that Barkas disposed of the toddler’s body at one of the two dump sites used by the construction crew.

“What they [South Yorkshire Police] had to tell me was the last thing they would have ever wanted to. They think my Ben could be dead and buried,” Ben’s mother, Kerry Needham, told the Mirror. “They are no longer looking for a missing person. How do I cope with that? My mother’s instinct has always told me he was alive. What if I’ve been wrong all this time?”