Police Launch Probe Into Alleged Abduction of British Teen Alex Batty Who Went Missing 6 Years Ago

Published on December 23, 2023

LONDON—A criminal investigation was launched into the alleged abduction of British teenager Alex Batty, who was found last week in France six years after his mother and grandfather took him on a vacation and never returned home, Greater Manchester police said Friday. Alex, 17, returned to Oldham, near Manchester, on Saturday and was reunited with his grandmother—the legal guardian who had made frantic and emotional appeals over the years for his return. A delivery driver found Alex walking along a road in southern France in the middle of the night Dec. 13. The boy told police he had been living a nomadic lifestyle in Spain, Morocco, and France with his mother and grandfather as part of a “spiritual community” and decided to leave when his mother talked about going to Finland....

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