Missing at age 11, found six years later in France: British teenager pops up on a dark, rainy night

LONDON (AP) — 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 am in the morning, it’s raining, he’s all by himself on the road between two villages,” delivery driver Fabien Accidini recounted. × Already a Subscriber? Sign in You are logged in Switch accounts 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. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW U.K. police confirmed Friday that the teenager found by Accidini this week appears to be the boy who vanished at age 11…