Ms Kelly Needham, 20, Ben's mother, and his father, Mr Simon Ward, 22, agreed to be interviewed by police in Yorkshire police, who sent family details to the Greek authorities.

The episode ends with Alan making a fortune supplying the Yorkshire police with handguns, which are actually defective knockoffs purchased for £10 apiece.

Mr. Hill is best known for his 24 idiosyncratic but elegant crime novels featuring the Yorkshire police detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe.

Reginald Hill, the prolific British author best known for his 24 idiosyncratic but elegant crime novels featuring the Yorkshire police detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, died on Thursday at his home in Cumbria, England.

On 22 February 2007 Yorkshire police announced plans to re-investigate 700 court cases after the conviction of Gene Morrison, "a fraudster who conned the courts for three decades by posing as a forensic expert."