Alex Batty speaks for first time as he returns to Greater Manchester six years after going missing
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAlex Batty - who was missing for six years before being reunited with his grandmother in Oldham - has revealed he wanted to return home to have a better future.
Now 17, he said in an interview that he left his mother and grandfather in France after realising he could no longer live with them.
Alex also revealed he wants to go to college to study computing. The interview comes after a court heard he's had no formal schooling since he went missing in 2017 aged 11 and that he is being urged to resume his education. READ MORE: Manhunt underway after group 'targeted' in terrifying shooting before suspect flees scene in car READ MORE: M62 to remain SHUT both ways for hours after serious crash Alex was reported missing after he went on holiday to Marbella, Spain, with mum Melanie Batty and grandfather, David Batty.
French prosecutors said in a news conference last week that he was then taken to live in a 'spiritual community', living in Morocco for two years and later the French Pyrenees.
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