Another Search For Ben Needham

[webbo3]

I wonder if the MCCanns would like to donate some money to help with the search from all the millions they had donated.

25 years ago, I do hope they get some new leads to end this case.


Police Fly To Kos In Hunt For Missing Ben Needham
http://news.sky.com/story/1692780/police-fly-to-kos-in-hunt-for-missing-ben-
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Dave.

[retrocop]

//Retrocop, hardly a similar scenario. Lee Boxell was 15 when he disappeared. He wasn't a toddler.//

He was the same age as my youngest boy and lived around the corner from us. Still a tragic disappearance for the parents who still haven't given up hope.
Could easily of been my son.!!

[ummmm]

hc...my parents used that baby sitting service when we were in Butlins.

When I took my little ones abroad the hotel offered something similar (which I never used) they used baby monitors along with checks. Anyone in the know would head straight for the monitor and turn it off.

[horselady]

40 years ago we used to use the monitoring system on holiday, I also used to leave both my babies outside shops in their prams while I went inside. Makes me shudder now, but that's how it was once. Doesn't mean I was a bad parent.

[ChillDoubt]

Unless they're going to specifically search for a child's body, isn't going looking for an adult a bit pointless?

[pixie374]

It's not pointless. His family needs to know. I would say he does too. It's up to him where he goes with it then.

[webbo3]

Sp1814 gets best purely because me laugh with his pram "accident".

And Ladybirder I wasnt having a go at the McCanns I thought maybe they could use some of the money from the millions raised for Maddie to help in this case and I didn't realise Kate was doing something.


Dave.

[Cloverjo]

I don't think Kerry Needham (Ben's mum) would fight to get him home to her if he'd had a happy life. She has said before that she just wants to know what happened to him and would leave him alone if that's what would best for him. I feel so sorry for her. It must be torture.

[ladybirder]

OK webbo.

[Jackdaw33]

My mother took me in my pram into the Co-op, left me there and took the bus home. it was only when someone on the bus asked her how her baby was that she twigged what she'd done.

[-SharonA-]

I am trying to rack m y brains for the name of the young lady who vanish whilst showing an empty house to a man. In London.

[ummmm]

Suzy Lamplugh?

[-SharonA-]

Thanks Ummm that's it. Another one never found.

[ladybirder]

Suzy's poor mother died without burying her daughter.

[naomi24]

retrocop, of course it was a tragic disappearance - and it could have been anyone's son - but he wasn't a defenceless baby.

[Cloverjo]

I remember the "baby-minding" service at Butlins in the 70s. Young men or women would put their ears to the door to listen for crying children. I remember my parents getting ready to go out and leave my sister and I in the chalet. It was my sister's crying that led to my dad staying in that night. Otherwise we would have been left alone. It was normal then.

[-Talbot-]

Why am I not surprised.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7144255/Kos-cops-go-on-booze-bender.html

[Bathsheba]

I remember that baby-minding service at holiday camps....you just tied a white hanky to the door handle! OMG!!

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[Bathsheba]

Talbot...show me a photo of those cops taken between 8am and 5pm.

[Jackdaw33]

I also vaguely remember another case, must be nearly thirty years ago now, 14/15 year old boy, last seen on camera being escorted from a tube station by an older man. The name escapes me.

[anneasquith]

Just how stupid are those police, do they not realise the press would be watching them . stay I n you're hotel boys and girls, and eat drink and be merry.