Police conduct additional checks to show boy ‘who escaped a commune’ is Alex Batty
Police are finishing up additional checks to substantiate the id of a teen they consider is lacking Brit Alex Batty.
The boy, from Oldham in Greater Manchester, was 11 when he vanished whereas travelling together with his household in Spain in October 2017. He hadn’t been seen since, the Daily Star beforehand reported.
It is assumed he spent his days in a “spiritual community” on the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains in France earlier than making a break for it and being picked up by a lorry driver, who alerted authorities. Now prosecutors consider the teen has turned up in Revel, close to Toulouse within the nation’s southern Occitanie area.
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The boy chatted to Alex’s grandmother on a video name yesterday night time (Thursday, December 14), Assistant Chief Constable Chris Sykes of Greater Manchester Police revealed.
In a press convention on Friday, he informed reporters: “The young man and Alex’s grandmother spoke on a video call last night and whilst she is content that this is indeed Alex, we obviously have further checks to do when he returns to the United Kingdom.
“Our primary precedence now’s to see Alex returned house to his household within the UK and our investigation workforce are working across the clock with associate businesses and the French authorities to make sure they’re all absolutely supported. Alex and his household stay our focus and we nonetheless have some work to do in establishing the total circumstances surrounding his disappearance and the place he has been in all these years.
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“I can only imagine the emotions they have experienced as a family throughout this ordeal.”
Alex, who would now be 17, was together with his mom Melanie Batty, then 37, and grandfather David Batty, then 58, when he vanished. Both adults had been banned from being with Alex on the time of his disappearance on account of home difficulties.
But regardless of the prohibition the household took a two-week journey to Marbella. They had been set to come back again to the UK however did not return, prompting police to launch an inquiry after Alex remained unaccounted for.
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Alex’s grandmother and official guardian Susan Caruana mentioned on the time she reckoned the group could have adopted “an alternative lifestyle” someplace. Speaking on the time, she mentioned: “They didn’t want [Alex] to go to school, they don’t believe in mainstream school.”
The teen is predicted to return to the UK within the coming days. Assistant Chief Constable Sykes added: “We are working hard to bring Alex back as soon as possible. He’s getting well cared for by the French authorities at the moment, they’re in Toulouse.
“We’re in shut liaison with them and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and our precedence is to get him again to the UK and getting again to his household in Oldham as quickly as attainable.”
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