Excavations begin on Monday in the search for missing toddler Ben Needham following a new line of inquiry that he may have been accidentally crushed by a digger on the Greek island of Kos 25 years ago. Mother Kerry Needham has said the notion her son was dead never entered her “worst nightmares” until a mystery tip-off to police this year. Investigators on the Greek island where Ben vanished have already told her to “prepare for the worst” as excavation work – which police have warned could be painstaking – begins in the search for possible remains. Kerry Needham, from Sheffield, told the Daily Mirror: “Not even in my worst nightmares has Ben ever been dead ... until now. South Yorkshire Police has confirmed that its team, led by Detective Superintendent Matt Fenwick, will begin searching a specific site on Kos, starting on Monday.

Source: The Guardian September 26, 2016 04:18 UTC