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Police in Cyprus have said that DNA tests on a man who could have been missing Ben Needham have come back negative.

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Romanian has DNA test in search for missing Ben

Missing Ben Needham Credit: South Yorkshire Police

The family of the missing Sheffield toddler Ben Needham have suffered another set back after it emerged that a young man being investigated in Cyprus is probably not Ben.

The man, said to bear a resemblance to one of the updated e-fit pictures which have been released in the search for Ben, handed himself into the Greek police this afternoon and has undergone a DNA test voluntarily.

The results of the DNA test should be known in two or three days. But tonight Kerry Needham played down the development saying the Roma family he was with were related to his girlfriend.

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