British police have made 46 return flights to Kos, Greece this year in a bid to solve the mystery of toddler Ben Needham’s disappearance, reported The Sun on Sunday.
In less than 12 months, South Yorkshire police made the 2,223-mile journey to the Greek island almost four dozen times.
Last month detectives announced that Ben “most likely” died due to a building site accident at a farmhouse close to Iraklis where his family had been staying.
The breakthrough came after a now deceased digger operator Konstantinos ‘Dino’ Barkas allegedly confessed that he had mistakenly killed the British boy before hiding his body in building waste.
Despite the astonishing number of economy class flights, which cost £21,141.62, detectives were not able to find Ben, according to The Sun on Sunday.
300 reported sightings
After digging up more than 800 tonnes of soil they did locate a toy car that his family identified as being in his possession when the 21-month old from Sheffield disappeared in July 1991.
Ben was initially believed to have been kidnapped and there were more than 300 reported sightings of him as his mum Kerry Needham, now 43, repeatedly called for information.
South Yorkshire Police Detective Inspector Jon Cousins announced last month: “My team and I know that machinery, including a large digger, was used to clear an area of land on July 24, 1991, behind the farmhouse that was being renovated.
“It is my professional belief that Ben Needham died as a result of an accident near to the farmhouse in Iraklis where he was last seen playing.
“The recovery of this item, and its location, further adds to my belief that material was removed from the farmhouse on or shortly after the day that Ben disappeared.”
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