Alex Batty to return to the UK this weekend after escaping commune | UK News
Kidnapped teenager Alex Batty will be reunited with his grandmother in Oldham this weekend, French authorities have said.
The 17-year-old, who is believed to have spent the last six years living off the grid in Spain and France with his mum and her father, was found near the French city of Toulouse on Wednesday.
The chief public prosecutor in Toulouse, Samuel Vuelta-Simon, told reporters on Friday that Alex will be flown back to the UK on Saturday or Sunday ‘at the latest’.
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