GYPSY THIEVES

[Duchess]

Here's Ben - such a charming little boy :(



Ben Needham disappeared on the holiday isle of Kos in 1999 aged just 21 months, sparking a huge but ultimately unsuccessful police hunt.

He was seized within moments of him going to play outside a farmhouse, which his grandfather was renovating in the village of Iraklise.

His mother Kerry was working as a waitress on the island at the time.

Investigators suspect the blonde-haired child was abducted by a gypsy gang, and sold to the highest bidder for adoption.

But a bungled police inquiry – which was heavily criticised by Ben’s family - failed to track down the culprits.

Despite a number of possible sightings and a range of theories about what happened to him, no trace of the youngster has ever been found.