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British boy missing for six years found alive in France
Daily Express
|December 15, 2023
A BRITISH teenager who had not been seen since he was apparently abducted on a family holiday six years ago has been found walking along a road in France.
Alex Batty, from Oldham, was 11 when he went missing in Spain with his mother Melanie, then 37, and grandfather David, 58.
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It is understood his legal guardians they were not at the time.
On Wednesday he was spotted in the foothills of the Pyrenees by a delivery driver, Fabien Accidini, who took him to a police station.
Last night Greater Manchester Police said they were in contact with French authorities to "establish the authenticity of the reported sighting of Alex".
This story is from the December 15, 2023 edition of Daily Express.
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