POLICE investigating Ben Needham’s disappearance have been inundated with calls after showing on a lacking individuals programme.
The group acquired 114 calls from the general public and Detective Inspector Jon Cousins insists essential info was acquired following the present.
He stated: “There was an excellent response, not solely right here within the studio however I’m conscious of 114 calls to the telephones we’re utilising with the officers who’re out right here in Greece.
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“There was some info which is of curiosity and it’s one thing we’re going to work on over the subsequent few days.”
He added: “The present has carried out extraordinarily properly, it does attain out to the fitting individuals and I consider we’ll get some solutions from this.”
Officers at the moment are following up calls made after they went on Mild on the Finish of the Tunnel on Friday night time.
The present, broadcast from Athens on Alpha TV, is watched by six million viewers.
Detectives are additionally persevering with to look into claims that Ben’s identify was modified to Andreas and he was with a person referred to as Nikos two years after he vanished from Kos.
A workforce of British detectives have been on the island for every week, interesting for assist from locals and the broader Greek group. We informed final week how 10 detectives travelled there to research the disappearance as if from scratch.
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Det Insp Cousins stated he needed to destroy “fantasy and legend” across the case. Ben’s mum Kerry stated on the time: “I’m overjoyed that, in any case these years, the Greek police are permitting British police to research.”
However officers got here underneath hearth after being pictured on a seven-hour consuming session inside hours of launching the £1million probe.
Det Supt Matt Fenwick, senior officer on the case, was referred to as again to the UK and reprimanded by bosses at South Yorkshire Police. He was allowed to proceed engaged on the probe after pleas from Ben’s household.
Det Insp Cousins believes the solutions to discovering Ben lie in Kos. The British lad was 21 months previous when he went lacking in 1991 from outdoors a farmhouse his mother and father have been renovating there. He would now be 26.
South Yorkshire Police have been granted £450,000 by the Authorities in March for the search, plus £seven hundred,000 from the House Workplace final January.
Final week, Crimestoppers provided a £10,000 worldwide reward for proof resulting in Ben’s discovery.
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