Police looking into child’s body recovered in river in Germany

The police are checking if a child’s body found in a river in Germany might be the body of a missing toddler named Ben Needham.

A body was found in the River Danube in Bavaria a year ago. It was weighed down with a heavy stone and wrapped in tin foil.

Ben disappeared in 1991 on the Greek island of Kos while he was playing at his grandparents’ farmhouse.

His mother, Kerry, is happy that South Yorkshire Police are investigating if the body found is her son’s, after Interpol asked for help.

She said: ‘I’m glad that they are investigating it. ‘ We need to look into and eliminate every option. We hope that someday, we will receive a single piece of information that reveals the truth.

I hope the British police will look into this and talk to the German officers about it. We need to eliminate or exclude it as a possibility. I have consistently said that I don’t think he has passed away.

The rebuilding project resembles Ben. I never knew that child trafficking is so common and widespread.

The person in charge of the Interpol DNA Database, Francois-Xavier Laurent, shared that they received 33 clues/tips from the public.
‘We can now guess that this boy was most likely not from Germany. ‘

The organization asked for the public’s help to find the identity of a dead boy and figure out what happened under questionable circumstances.

They also made a model of the boy’s head.

They thought the child was around five or six years old when he passed away.

We don’t know how long the boy’s body was in the river, and the police in Germany can’t figure out who the child is.
Investigators think that he was about 110 centimeters tall, weighed 15 kilograms, had brown hair, and had blood type O.

They made a model of what they believe he might have looked like in 3D and are offering a reward of £8,600 (€10,000) to anyone who provides any information.

It is thought that the boy had been in other countries, so the International Criminal Police Organization and its 195 member countries, including the UK, are now helping with the case.
The international police organization has sent out a message called a ‘Black Notice’. They want people to share any information they have about certain dead bodies that have been identified.

The head of the organization, Jürgen Stock, said: “There is someone out there who knows information about this boy, so it is very important to share specific details with the public. ”

‘We promise to use all of Interpol’s policing abilities to find out who he is and help investigators understand how he died, whether he was taken against his will or hurt. ‘