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| Ben Needham search: Grandfather visits Kos search site | Ben Needham search: Grandfather visits Kos search site |
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| The grandfather of missing toddler Ben Needham has visited the site police are searching on the Greek Island of Kos. | The grandfather of missing toddler Ben Needham has visited the site police are searching on the Greek Island of Kos. |
| Eddie Needham was renovating a property on the island when the 21-month-old, from Sheffield, went missing in 1991. | Eddie Needham was renovating a property on the island when the 21-month-old, from Sheffield, went missing in 1991. |
| South Yorkshire Police hoped he would be able to explain how the site looked at the time Ben vanished. | |
| Police are investigating whether the toddler was accidentally killed rather than abducted. | Police are investigating whether the toddler was accidentally killed rather than abducted. |
| Mr Needham spent around two hours touring the site with officers. | |
| Read more about this story and others from across Sheffield and South Yorkshire | Read more about this story and others from across Sheffield and South Yorkshire |
| Det Insp Jon Cousins, who is leading the investigation, said: "I want the experts who are here to have a good understanding of his [Mr Needham's] recollections around the day and the days after Ben's disappearance. | Det Insp Jon Cousins, who is leading the investigation, said: "I want the experts who are here to have a good understanding of his [Mr Needham's] recollections around the day and the days after Ben's disappearance. |
| "It is a very difficult time for Eddie. Very distressing and probably very upsetting." | "It is a very difficult time for Eddie. Very distressing and probably very upsetting." |
| He said the site was now in the state he believed it to have been at the time Ben went missing. | He said the site was now in the state he believed it to have been at the time Ben went missing. |
| "What we see now is what was there at that time," he said. | "What we see now is what was there at that time," he said. |
| It follows the demolition of an extension to a farmhouse which had been built since Ben's disappearance. | It follows the demolition of an extension to a farmhouse which had been built since Ben's disappearance. |
| A team of 19 South Yorkshire Police officers, forensic specialists and an archaeologist are excavating the site and are sifting through the rubble of the extension. | A team of 19 South Yorkshire Police officers, forensic specialists and an archaeologist are excavating the site and are sifting through the rubble of the extension. |
| The search, now in its tenth day, was prompted by information given to police following a television appeal in May. | The search, now in its tenth day, was prompted by information given to police following a television appeal in May. |
| A friend of a digger driver, who had been clearing land with an excavator on the day the toddler went missing, told police the man may have been responsible for Ben's death. | A friend of a digger driver, who had been clearing land with an excavator on the day the toddler went missing, told police the man may have been responsible for Ben's death. |
| The driver, Konstantinos Barkas, died of cancer in 2015. | The driver, Konstantinos Barkas, died of cancer in 2015. |