Gypsy couple appear in court on charges of abducting four-year-old Maria Dental tests have now revealed Maria is five or six-year-old, not four 8 'promising' calls: 4 US, and 1 from Sweden, France, Canada and Poland By Ben Spencer, Rebecca Evans and Jill Reilly Charged: A Roma couple are due to appear in court in Greece today on charges of abducting Maria, 4 A Roma couple are due to appear in court in Greece today on charges of abducting a young blonde girl named Maria. Hristos Salis, 39, and Eleftheria Dimopoulou, 40 are appearing at a courthouse in Larissa to answer charges of abducting a minor and holding false papers. Today police photos show authorities seized a haul of goods including a range of chainsaws, a pen-style pistol with bullets as well as drugs. The evidence photos also show credit cards which are believed to be stolen, alongside a pistol and a balaclava. Police grew suspicious about Maria because she bore no resemblance to the couple claiming to be her parents. DNA tests showed she is not related to Salis and Dimopoulou. Today a dental test revealed she is between five and six-years-old - previous estimates put her age at four. At the weekend a charity caring for the girl said she was treated like a "dancing bear" by the family she lived with - who exploited her innocent looks, making her beg for money. Yesterday a video was released showing Maria dancing reluctantly for a crowd. Scroll down for exclusive video Today photos released of the properties being raided when Maria was found show a haul of illegal goods were seized. Police photos show a range of chainsaws and laptops, above A pen-style pistol and bullets found among other illegal items at the Roma settlement Drugs, left, and a cannabis pipe, right, were also found during the raids Cannabis, mobile phones, drugs and weapons which were seized during the raid The evidence also shows credit cards which are believed to be stolen alongside a pistol and a balaclava Around 8,000 inquiries have been made about the girl. Today Greek media are reporting that Maria's DNA is being compared with DNA samples from people in seven other countries. In the latest footage, she appears with Maria Dimitriou, 21, granddaughter of the gipsy camp's leader DNA is found in almost every cell in the body including skin, hair follicles, and semen. Saliva doesn't contain cells, but as it moves around a person's mouth, it collects them. DNA in blood comes from the white blood cells. Many of these cells are porous which makes them easy to isolate DNA from. DNA is found in bones, but because bones are calcified, it makes the extraction more difficult - unless bone marrow is present. DNA determines eye and hair colour, bone density, height and so on. A large amount, 99.9 per cent of the DNA from two people is the same, yet 0.1% will be unique and this is known as a genetic marker. A child inherits half their DNA from each of their parents. It isn't exactly the same half each time, which explains why siblings look different. The more closely related two people are, the more likely it is their genetic markers will be similar. Identical twins have identical genetic markers, for example. During parental tests, scientists look for similarities in the genetic markers between two samples taken from the child and the parent. The DNA is collected, traditionally, using swabs of the inside of a cheek to collect buccal cells. The strand is isolated from the cells and millions of copies are made, using 'polymerase chain reaction'. The more DNA available, the easiest the genetic code is to analyse. By copying the strands, rather than taking new samples each time, it speeds up how quickly the tests can be carried out and why the results can now come back within a day, rather than weeks. The DNA molecules are split at different points and the code at these points forms a "fingerprint." The fingerprints from the two samples are compared to see if they match. If the band patterns of the alleged father don't match, he can be conclusively ruled out as the child's parent. In maternal tests, a particular form of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is tested. Both sexes have mtDNA but only women pass it on to their children. If a daughter doesn't share the mitochondrial DNA from an alleged mother, they do not come from the same maternal line. The comparison is repeated to confirm the results and the more probes used; the more definitive the results can be. Yesterday residents of Farsala's gipsy camp claimed a Bulgarian family had made an arrangement with the couple to look after their daughter since she was a baby. Babis Dimitriou, the chairman of the Farsala village Roma association, told The Daily Telegraph: 'There was a Bulgarian husband and wife who were working around Greece in temporary jobs, who used to stay here sometimes. At one point they left the girl to be raised by the family here in the village. The family raised the child as if it was their own, although her father would come back every now and then to see her. The last time he visited was only five days ago, after the arrests had been made. All the other Roma here were telling the Bulgarian man to explain to the police that the girl was his, but he has now disappeared. At the weekend a Greek couple who were told in 2009 that their baby was stillborn, but later exhumed the grave to find an empty coffin, underwent DNA tests, but found out Maria was not their child. 'We were always suspicious and when we got the go-ahead from the local prosecutor to exhume the newborn from a local cemetery, we found no remains, nothing in the casket,' the father, whose wife is fair with blue eyes, told local television. The family of missing Ben Needham revealed how Greek police refused to follow up reported sightings of the boy at the same remote gipsy camp where Maria was discovered. Today his mother Kerry Needham, 41, told Radio 4's Today programme: 'It is definitely not a surprise. We have always strongly suspected Ben's abduction was gipsy-related.' She said it has already been strongly denied by Greek police who told her: 'Gipsies do not steal children - they have enough children of their own, why would they want someones else's child? She said she would also told: 'It would be impossible to steal a blonde-hair, blue-eyed child within the gipsy encampment. This is proof they are wrong as this girl was turned up with blond hair and blue eyes. 'We are in very close contact with South Yorkshire police and at the moment obviously they are saying there is no connection with Ben's case which is fine, we are not saying these gipsies are the same ones that too Ben, we just now need the Greek police to investigate the gipsy community a lot further,' she told the programme. 'This case has given us fresh hope and maximum publicity and it is just a matter of time,' sje saod. Ben's father Simon Ward, who wanted the same camp searched, said the case has renewed hopes that his son will be found. He told the Daily Mirror: "When I first heard I thought "Oh my God, yes, they have found her." It means this girl's parents do not have to go through what we have been through. But it also confirms this could have happened to Ben. It could be very important for Ben's case. It could throw up all kinds of information, and new leads. South Yorkshire Police said 'there appears to be no direct correlation' between this case and the disappearance of Ben Needham. In a statement they said: 'The case of Ben Needham continues to be investigated by the Greek authorities and South Yorkshire Police continues to support his family. No investigation is currently being carried out by the Force in light of this recent case and officers from South Yorkshire Police will only become involved should authorities in Greece require our assistance.