Another one.
Kerry Needham has an 'anxious wait' for a DNA test to be carried on an adopted man from America. She has been sent photographs and was surprised by the family resemblance.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Needham mum's frantic wait for DNA results on man claiming to be missing son
The mum of missing
Ben Needham is "nervously" waiting for a DNA test on a man who suspects he could be her son, after seeing his photos which bear an ‘uncanny’ resemblance to her family.
She says the images sent to her also look like her
missing son’s age progression image. Ben, from Sheffield, disappeared on the Greek island of Kos on July 24, 1991, aged 21 months. His family, including Kerry's parents and two brothers, had moved to Kos earlier in the year to start a new life.
Despite one of the longest missing person investigations in British history - including two excavations at the farmhouse where he was last seen - his whereabouts remain unknown. Recently
police in the US have been investigating claims of a sighting, amid claims he could have been illegally adopted but their investigation had stalled.
Illegal adoption in the US during the 1980s and 1990s has been connected to international child trafficking scandals. Private adoption agencies and lawyers often bypassed regulations, matching stolen children with American parents.
Now Kerry has been contacted by a woman claiming her boyfriend could be one of those illegally adopted children. She wrote to Kerry, saying her adopted boyfriend ‘looks exactly like this future drawing’ and explained he was 'supposedly adopted in 1993.'
“He has always had questions about his adoption and his adopted parents.” She claimed they wouldn't give him his birth certificate and acted “insane” when he asked.
“I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, especially Kerry’s, but I feel like he is Ben. He is really hoping so as well…There are too many coincidences to ignore this.”
