Missing at Age 11, Found 6 Years Later in France: British Teenager Pops up on a Dark, Rainy Night

LONDON—The vehicle’s headlights silhouetted the exhausted teenager walking alone in the rain in deepest rural France, with a skateboard tucked under his arm. “I said to myself, ‘That’s strange. It’s 3 a.m. in the morning, it’s raining, he’s all by himself on the road between two villages,” delivery driver Fabien Accidini recounted. From there, the story gets stranger still. The youngster, it turned out, was Alex Batty, a 17-year-old from Britain who had been missing since 2017. UK police confirmed Friday that the teenager found by Mr. Accidini this week appears to be the boy who vanished at age 11 on a family holiday in Spain. The police said they are “relieved and overjoyed” he’s been found....