Teenager Alex Batty returns to Britain after being missing for 6…

LONDON (AP) – British teenager Alex Batty flew back to the U.K. on Saturday, six years after he left home on what was meant to be a two-week family vacation in Spain. Batty never returned from that holiday to his grandmother and guardian in Oldham, near Manchester. Her frantic appeals found no trace of him – until he turned up this week, walking along a road in southern France in the middle of the night. Assistant Chief Constable Matt Boyle of Greater Manchester Police said Batty had arrived in England on a flight from Toulouse. He said police “are yet to fully establish the circumstances surrounding his disappearance” and whether there should be a criminal investigation. Now, 17, Alex told…

Source: Daily Mail Online
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