I am reading today 8th December 2025, an article in the Mirror newspaper from Ben’s Mother Kerry. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/missing-toddler-ben-needhams-mum-36345828
Kerry states when uncle Stephen left the farmhouse at 2.30pm Ben was still playing outside. After a couple of minutes, it was realised Ben had gone quiet. Stephen had been seen by a witness riding off alone from the Farmhouse on his motor bike. On checking Kerry’s mum discovered Ben was nowhere to be found.
Kerry further states, ‘the digger arrived sometime around 4.30 to 5pm’ Dino the driver, asked where he should create the drive way.
Therefore the question must now be raised, where was Ben from minutes after 2.30pm, until the digger arrived at 4.30 to 5pm?
The substantial search conducted around the farmhouse, by South Yorkshire Police in 2016, discovered on the day Ben disappeared, there was an active heavy plant digger machine, being used very close to the farmhouse. SYP even released a map showing the area where the digger had been active.
At the end of their extensive week long search, SYP held a press conference at the Farmhouse. They stated it was their professional opinion, Ben had met with a fatal accident involving the digger, on the lunchtime he was last seen alive.
The second obvious question must be, South Yorkshire police must have been informed of these two important timings, during their excavation and search of the land, and a near by rubbish tip, known to have been used by Dino. So how could they attribute any blame to Dino, if Ben had been missing for two or two and a half hours, BEFORE Dino arrived with the digger?
Did SYP waste time and public money conducting their extensive search on Kos Island in 2016?
As a long term investigator of this case, weighing up all the the probabilities, my theory that Ben’s body was deliberately buried close to the Farm House, and has remained undiscovered there for the past thirty four years, is the best advancement this case has ever seen.
My story with the Sun newspaper was presumably not published, as Kerry was about to launch a website, and had now decided that she no longer agreed with the professional view concluded by SYP.
Kerry has previously stated on ITV Loose Woman, when asked what she thought had happened to Ben, replied she believed what SYP believed. Now we get suddenly this information and timings about ‘the digger machine’ coming out for the first time. A digger machine which apparently appeared two and a half hours AFTER Ben was last seen.
Ian Crosby.