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| Missing Ben new picture released | Missing Ben new picture released |
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| An artist's impression of how a missing toddler would look 16 years after his disappearance has been produced to coincide with his 18th birthday. | An artist's impression of how a missing toddler would look 16 years after his disappearance has been produced to coincide with his 18th birthday. |
| Ben Needham vanished from outside a farmhouse on the Greek island of Kos in 1991, when he was just 21 months old. | Ben Needham vanished from outside a farmhouse on the Greek island of Kos in 1991, when he was just 21 months old. |
| The picture was drawn by the Metropolitan Police facial imaging team, at the request of Ben's mother, Kerry Grist, from Sheffield. | The picture was drawn by the Metropolitan Police facial imaging team, at the request of Ben's mother, Kerry Grist, from Sheffield. |
| The missing boy's 18th birthday is on 29 October. | The missing boy's 18th birthday is on 29 October. |
| The new picture is to be posted on the National Missing Persons website. | The new picture is to be posted on the National Missing Persons website. |
| In my heart I feel that if I thought for even one minute that Ben was no longer alive I would have given up by now Kerry Grist, Ben's mother | |
| Mrs Grist's son Ben has not been seen since his disappearance from the house her parents and brother were renovating, despite appeals by his family and the British authorities over the years. | |
| Theories have included that Ben, whose grandparents are from Lincolnshire, was killed, abducted or sold on to a family who could not have a child, but police have never closed the file. | |
| Mrs Grist said that in the beginning it did not enter their heads that Ben might have been abducted. | |
| "You live every day just thinking someone is going to walk back through the door with him," she said. | |
| Ben Needham went missing when he was 21 months old | |
| But his family have never given up hope of finding him. They believe he was "taken to order", passing through the hands of child smuggling gangs and could be "anywhere in the world". | |
| Mrs Grist said: "There is no evidence at all in the past nearly 16 years to say that Ben is dead. | |
| "There was never anything at the time, no traces were found, no clues were found to insinuate that. | |
| "And in my heart I feel that if I thought for even one minute that Ben was no longer alive, I would have given up by now - and I can't. | |
| "There is something that drives me on to keep looking, keep looking and keep fighting for him." |