'IT'S A MASSIVE COVER-UP'
Ben Needham’s mum says blood discovery proves he was killed and his body was moved
BEN Needham's heartbroken mum has said blood found on a sandal and toy car belonging to her missing son provide "conclusive evidence" he was killed 26 years ago.
Kerry Needham has been searching for her son since the 21-month-old toddler vanished on the Greek island of Kos on July 24, 1991, but says she has now accepted he is dead.
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She told Good Morning Britain: "This is the first time we've got conclusive evidence that he died on the day he disappeared."
Kerry, from Sheffield, added that her anguish has turned to anger following the discovery, as it proves a cover-up which has extended her family's anger for nearly three decades.
She said: "The really difficult thing about it is trying to understand why these people haven't come forward.
"They've seen myself and my family break down. They could have just told us and wouldn't have had to have gone through all this trauma."
The sandal was found in 2012 at the site where Konstantinos "Dino" Barkas was operating a digger, while the car was discovered last year at another spot.
Kerry, 43, is now convinced her child was taken from the site where he was buried before British police returned to carry out a dig there last year.
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Mr Barkas is believed to have died from stomach cancer in 2015.
The 21-month toddler disappeared 26 years ago today while visiting his grandparents’ farmhouse on the Greek island of Kos.
Making a fresh appeal for information, Kerry said: "It shows more of a conspiracy because they didn’t find Ben’s body. That proves it to me without doubt they obviously moved him and buried him and for whatever reason dug him up. There’s no other explanation. It’s all been a massive cover-up.
“This confirms what the police have been saying all along. My Ben was killed in an accident. But it also suggests that not only did they kill my boy and bury him where the toy car was found, they then moved him before police got to the site last October.
“What kind of human being does that? It just infuriates me. How can they do such a thing? He was definitely wearing those sandals that day. They were the only ones we could keep on his feet."
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Cops believe he was accidentally hit by a digger driven by builder Barkas.
But there has been no sign of Ben’s body.
Professor Lorna Dawson, of the James Hutton institute in Aberdeen, has been working with South Yorkshire Police in the hunt for the boy. He said: “These findings could corroborate the police theory there was an accident and the body moved.”
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