British police have officially ended the excavation of the site on Kos island where toddler Ben Needham went missing on July 24, 1991.
The search was declared over on Sunday morning, exactly three weeks after it began. Digging on another site near the farmhouse where the boy disappeared ended a day earlier. On Saturday, Greek police had said that the excavation was futile because authorities had already searched the area twice.
British police will hold a press conference on Monday to reveal what they have found. Forensic experts will go through more than 70 items found that might be significant to the investigation.
British and Greek police began the excavations in late September after receiving information suggesting that Ben Needham could have been accidentally crushed by a digger. In May, a friend of digger operator Konstantinos Barkas who died recently, came forward saying that Barkas could have accidentally killed little Ben while clearing land around the farmhouse that belonged to his grandparents.
When British police decided to start the operation on Kos, Ben’s heartbroken mother Kerry Needham had been warned to prepare for the worst. “Not even in my worst nightmares has Ben ever been dead … until now. I’ve been waking up and finding my pillow wet with tears,” she told The Guardian.
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