Overview
- Kerry Needham received photos of a man in the United States whose appearance closely matches the 2021 age‑progressed image of Ben and her family features.
- The man, contacted through his partner and reportedly adopted in 1993, has agreed to provide a DNA sample and has asked for privacy.
- Kerry says she has passed the details to South Yorkshire Police and hopes they will request testing via Interpol.
- The family is cautious after hundreds of prior approaches, including hoaxes, refusals to take DNA tests, and prolonged harassment despite negative results.
- Ben disappeared on Kos in 1991; extensive searches and a digger‑accident theory yielded no proof, and recent leads have steered attention to possible illegal US adoptions, including those linked to New York.