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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dan Haygarth

Police drop case of missing British toddler 35 years after he vanished in Greece

The mother of Ben Needham, who vanished as a toddler almost 35 years ago, said she broke down in tears after a UK police force told her it would no longer actively investigate her son’s disappearance.

Ben, from Sheffield, was 21 months old when he went missing on the Greek island of Kos in July 1991, when he was staying in a farmhouse with his grandparents.

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