Another Search For Ben Needham

[webbo3]

I wonder if the MCCanns would like to donate some money to help with the search from all the millions they had donated.

25 years ago, I do hope they get some new leads to end this case.


Police Fly To Kos In Hunt For Missing Ben Needham
http://news.sky.com/story/1692780/police-fly-to-kos-in-hunt-for-missing-ben-
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Dave.

[naomi24]

I hope they have some success too. What his parents must have gone through for all these years is unimaginable.

[horselady]

It would be wonderful if he is found or at least find exactly what happened to him. Whatever though, they've lost all those years they should have had with their boy, heartbreaking.

[agchristie]

Maybe, maybe, just one day positive news will come.

The artists impression looks like top golfer, Jordan Speith.

[Sqad]

Ben would be almost 27 years old and if stillalive would only know one life.

If he were found, would it be in the boy's interest to "repatriate" him?

I think not.

[naomi24]

If he is alive he possibly has no idea that he's the son of parents other than those who have raised him in which case his discovery would come as an enormous shock to him. However, he is now a grown man, and closure for his parents would be good.

[agchristie]

I wonder if he has ever googled his own name?

[naomi24]

I doubt he knows his own name. If he did, he'd know he's not the son of the parents who have raised him.

[agchristie]

Of course Naomi, I got it into my head he was slightly older when he went missing.

[mikey4444]

I seem to recall a documentary about this boy a few years ago, and it rather concluded, without proof unfortunately, that he had been abducted by Romanies, in Greece.

As I understand genetics, its very unusual for a blue-eyed boy, to be the son of non-blue-eyed parents. Not impossible, just very rare.

As regards the blonde hair colouring, I was amazed to discover on a trip to Tunisia a few years ago, how many blonde-haired children we saw when we visited some Berber tribesmen. It was explained that it was down to the influence, 1000's of years ago, of Celtic traders !

Unless somebody is willing to spill some beans, I think it highly unlikely that he will ever be found again. This is terribly sad for his family, but after so many years, perhaps they will never find any peace.

[retrocop]

As I have mentioned a couple of times on this site it would appear the interest of a missing child only attracts attention if they go missing abroad. Any one heard of Lee Boxell here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lee_Boxell

[mikey4444]

Rtero....Lee Boxell disappearance has been linked to paedophile activity many times in the past. He would not be the only boy to have disappeared in similar circumstances.

[naomi24]

Retrocop, hardly a similar scenario. Lee Boxell was 15 when he disappeared. He wasn't a toddler.

[ladybirder]

Why the need to have a dig at the Mccanns? Kate does help in the search for missing children other than her own.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6958292/McCann-and-Coral-Jones-receive-award-for-dedication-to-missing-kids.html

[ummmm]

That line is getting boring now 10ClarionSt....

[viv41]

I too don't see the need to have a dig at the McCanns when starting a thread about Ben Needham. A lot of suffeirng all round.

[ummmm]

But not the topic of the thread!

[sp1814]

10ClarionSt

It's not outside the realms of possibility that a fair few parents have done the same thing in the past (pre-Maddie), with absolutely nothing happening. In fact, Butlins had a service whereby parents could leave their kids in a chalet in the evenings, and a member of staff would check on them every half an hour or so.

Right now, there are parents all over the country doing something which on reflection would seem risky to their kids, but it's the mindset of, "It'll never happen to me" that sometimes prevails.

My own mother accidentally brake off on my pram when I was a toddler, and it ran into traffic.

...well at least she says it was an accident...I still have my suspicions.