Missing UK teen found in France returned for better ‘future’
3 years agoThis photo taken in Camps sur l'Agly, on December 18, 2023, shows the entrance of the Gite de la Bastide lodging where Alex Batty and his grandfather used to stay here when they visited the village. - Alex Batty, a British teen who went missing six years ago and was found this week in southwest France, has arrived back in the UK, police said on January 16, 2023. The teenager was picked up by a driver in a mountainous area in southern France. Police have said they suspect his mother Melanie Batty, who did not have parental guardianship, and grandfather David Batty of abducting him in 2017 when he was 11, under the pretence of going on holiday in Spain. (Photo by Matthieu RONDEL / AFP)
A UK teen who resurfaced in France six years after going missing, has told a newspaper that he decided to return to Britain because he wanted a better future.