Ben Needham's mother: 'We can't live another 25 years like this' as search on Kos continues
The mother of Ben Needham, the toddler who went missing 25-years-ago on the island of Kos, has spoken of her anguish of not knowing what happened to her son.
Kerry Needham said finding out why her son disappeared will bring the family closure.
Investigators told Kerry Needham to "prepare for the worst" after a new line of inquiry suggested Ben may have been crushed to death by a digger near a farmhouse his grandparents were renovating in July 1991.
Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain Kerry said: "We can't live another 25 years like this, my parents can't and I can't. It's not the best solution but it will eventually lay it to rest for us, we're all extremely tired and distressed."
Detectives searching for Ben have been digging in a second area close to where Ben, then 21 months old disappeared from a farmhouse.
Speaking live from Turkey, Kerry Needham said: “We’re trying to remain as calm as we possibly can, it’s an agonising wait every day from news from the police.
"They are in constant contact with us and updating us on everything but every time the phone rings you think ‘is this going to be the one with the bad news?’ It’s stressful, it’s frustrating, it’s painful but we’re trying to stay as strong as we possible can.”
When presenter Piers Morgan asked if that answer would give her a sense of closure, Kerry said: “In a way yes because then we’ll know.
"You know 25 years living and not knowing where your child is, is torment. I don’t like to say it but then at least we would know and it would be closure and he can be laid to rest and we can remember him as he was.”