Ben Needham’s sister breaks down on Good Morning Britain as she vows to keep searching for tragic tot

BEN Needham's sister broke down during a TV appearance this morning as she vowed to fight "tooth and nail" to discover what happened to the tragic tot.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain Leigh-Anna Needham said she is not sure that a toy car found by cops at the site of a farmhouse in Kos belonged to her brother and that she remains hopeful he will be found.

She said: “I still remain hopeful that he is out there. The toy car has been shown to my mum and grandparents.

"My mum obviously broke down, they do vaguely remember a toy car but what I can’t stress enough is my nan is only 90per cent sure that it is one that is similar to the one that Ben had. We can’t say for definite that it is Ben’s toy car."

Leigh-Anna said that without definite proof of what happened to her brother she remains hopeful.

She told presenters:  “I will always remain hopeful that he is still out there. Wherever there is hope there is still a fight and I’m prepared to fight tooth and nail until I get to the bottom of this.”

Police launched a three week search on the Greek island after a witness said the toddler was killed by a mechanical digger driven by Konstantinos “Dino” Barkas, who has since died of cancer.

Yesterday lead investigator Detective Inspector Jon Cousins said he believed that Ben was killed in an accident close to the farmhouse where he was last seen playing in July 1991, when just 21-months-old.

At the outset police said they were "optimistic" a new excavation would provide answers and told Ben's family to prepare for the worst.

This morning Leigh-Anna said: "I’m sort of half angry that they didn’t find anything because we were told to prepare for the worst and we believed at the time that the worst was going to be that we were going to find him and we were going to bring him back and we were going to have to deal with the grieving process then.

"I don’t think my grandparents can take much more of this. It’s absolutely destroyed my family and now I am even more determined to find out what happened on that day.”

Speaking about continuing the fight to discover what happened to her brother she added: “The options we were given was that we could all go to the farmhouse as a family and say goodbye and that’s not something I can do, and with speaking to a lot of the family that’s not something we can do, because there’s no proof that he’s there.

"So how can we say goodbye to somewhere knowing that there is still that hope.

"Like I said when there is still that hope there is a still a fight and no matter how many times I have to be stabbed in the heart again, because every time that something like this happens that’s what it feels like.

"I’ve got a pretty big heart and I can take a few more because I want to find out what happened for my mum and the rest of our family.”

Ben's heartbroken mum Kerry has said she hopes the digger driver suspected of killing her son is "burning in hell"

Kerry, from Sheffield, has vowed to keep looking for her son's body.