Little Ben’s mother is anxiously waiting to see if DNA test results will confirm that the Danish man is her missing son, who mysteriously disappeared from the island of Kos 33 years ago.

Little Ben disappeared on July 24 aged 21 months and was last seen playing outside a damaged farmhouse.

A Danish man has now claimed that his grandparents told him he was taken from the island and that he remembers going to a market 25 years ago and someone calling him ‘Ben’ before being held in a caravan.

Ben’s mother Kerry Needham, 51, is not holding out much hope that she will not be disappointed, as she has been on previous occasions.

Speaking to Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, he said: “This man is looking for his real family and has given the Danish police a sample of his DNA… In 33 years we have had hundreds of alleged sightings, most of which we have tracked ourselves in previous years.” .

When a photo of what Ben would look like aged 31 was released on 23 July 2021, Ms Needham revealed she did not believe police claims her son may have been killed by a digger.

In September 2018, Ben’s mother was told by coroners in Oxford that they had found a weak DNA profile from decomposed blood in the car near where he had gone missing. She provided a DNA sample, only to be told it did not match Ben.

At the time, Ms Needham said: “If that blood isn’t Ben’s – then who does it belong to? It’s devastating. We were built thinking it would be a positive outcome and prove that Ben had died.

“Some people in Kos have been lying for 27 years and we have suffered chronic torture, slow torture,” emphasizes his mother.