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TEARS FOR BEN
Ben Needham’s mum breaks down live on Good Morning Britain as she tells of search for missing tot
Emotional Kerry said: "We just can't live another 25 years like these."
THE mum of missing tot Ben Needham broke down in tears on live TV today as she spoke of her devastation at his disappearance 25 years ago.
Kerry Needham spoke of the need for answers during an emotional interview with Good Morning Britain.
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Toddler Ben vanished from Kos while on holiday with his family when he was 21-months-old.
Mum Kerry appeared on the show as she waits to find out if her little boy was accidentally run over by a digger driver.
Operator Konstantinos Barkas, who has since died of stomach cancer, reportedly told a man that Ben died in an accident and he covered the body up.
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Emotional Kerry said: “We need those answers whether they are good or bad.
“Unfortunately, it looks like we are going to get a bad one.”
She then burst into tear, before adding: “I think it really now is a case of finding him not alive. We just can't live another 25 years like these.
"My parents and I can't do it. We are all extremely stressed and tired."
When asked if that answer would give her a sense of closure, Kerry said: “In a way yes because then we’ll know.
"You know 25 years living and not knowing where your child is, is torment.
"I don’t like to say it but then at least we would know and it would be closure and he can be laid to rest and we can remember him as he was.”
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Kerry added: “We’re trying to remain as calm as we possibly can, it’s an agonising wait every day from news from the police.
"They are in constant contact with us and updating us on everything but everytime the phone rings you think ‘is this going to be the one with the bad news?’
"It’s stressful, it’s frustrating, it’s painful but we’re trying to stay as strong as we possible can.”
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Police have been digging on the island for two weeks in a bid to find information.
Ben's granddad has said he fears cops won’t find anything to help explain the tot’s disappearance.
Eddie Needham, 68, visited the site where he last saw the missing toddler on the Greek Island of Kos, on July 24 1991.
He had feared he may have worked on the farmhouse foundations at the centre of the search.
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The extension, ripped down earlier this week by police, is attached to the building Eddie Needham was renovating on the day Ben vanished.
But, after inspecting the foundations he said they were not the ones he put in weeks after Ben disappeared.
Eddie travelled to the Greek island to get “answers before I go to my grave”.
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