The Belief Of Ben Needham's Mum
Updated: 5:23am UK, Friday 19 October 2012
By Mike McCarthy, North of England Correspondent
British police have travelled to Kos to search a mound of earth near where Ben Needham went missing 21 years ago.
But how does anyone live with the knowledge that their child is missing without trace?
It's a question that I have considered many times over the past 21 years.
Over that time I have followed the story of Ben Needham who disappeared on the Greek island of Kos in 1991 and have visited the island with his mother Kerry during one of her many campaigning trips.
Of all the heartbreaking memories Kerry has shared with me over the years I found none more poignant than those of her departure from Kos after all hope of finding her son seemed lost.
The media interest had dwindled, the Greek police had (temporarily at least) seemed to have given up.
I remember Kerry telling me that she felt crushed by the agonising thought that she was in some way abandoning Ben and leaving him behind when she finally returned to the UK.
Under such unbearable pressure she felt at times that she was drifting uncontrollably towards insanity.
The young mother and 21-month-old son had left their home city of Sheffield to start a new life in the sunshine with her parents Eddie and Christine who had settled on the island some time earlier.
The vast majority of missing children mercifully turn up safe and well. But how do parents survive when their child does not return?
For 21 years Kerry Needham has clung to the hope that Ben is still alive.
In fact "belief" seems a more accurate word than "hope" for there is something utterly unshakeable about the faith she appears to have kept throughout the long years without Ben.
"Until someone proves that Ben is dead," she once told me, "I can't give up... for his sake."
Even after all this time there's no mistaking the pain Ben's family still endure.
I guess it will stay with Kerry to her dying day... unless, unless... one day there might be a miracle.
Until then I feel pretty certain that the well of strength that has sustained a mother in what must have felt so many times like a living hell will keep her hopes alive.
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