Kerry Needham, the mother of Ben and her family marked his 24th birthday on Tuesday as they waited for the results. <\/p>\n
\"The Needham family have, in the last few minutes ... had confirmation that the DNA results on the man in Cyprus have came back as negative,\" read a post on the official Help Find Ben Needham Facebook page. <\/p>\n
\"This, again, is more disappointment for Kerry and her family. However, they remain strong and resolute in their search for Ben, and there are other leads currently being looked into which keeps their hopes alive.\" <\/p>\n
The man in the video is a 22-year-old Romanian national who has been living in Limassol since February. In the short video clip he was shown at a religious service with a group of Roma, who he explained to police were the family of his girlfriend. <\/p>\n
Ben, from Sheffield, vanished on July 24, 1991 after travelling to Kos with his mother and grandparents, who were renovating a farmhouse in the village of Iraklise. <\/p>\n
There have been a numerous possible sightings over the years and a range of theories about what happened to him. <\/p>\n
Last year a major new police operation focused on a mound of earth and rubble close to where Ben was last seen but no trace of him was found. <\/p>\n
Another light-haired Roma man suspected to be Ben was DNA-tested in Thessaloniki, northern Greece earlier this month, also with negative results. <\/p>\n
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