POLICE have launched an investigation into the alleged abduction of Alex Batty after he returned to the UK.
Greater Manchester cops have interviewed the British teen following his six-year ordeal and are now pursuing a kidnap probe.
Alex Batty before he disappeared
Alex, now 17, escaped France last week to return to the UK after his mum and grandad allegedly kidnapped him in 2017.
He finally returned home to Oldham, Greater Manchester, last weekend and was reunited with his overjoyed gran Susan Caruana.
She was distraught when he vanished on a holiday with Melanie in David in Spain, age 11, not to be seen again.
Mum Melanie, who was “anti-government” and “anti-vax”, wanted him to live a nomadic life with her.
The three of them spent the next six years moving between homes in Europe including a commune in the French Pyrenees mountains.
Alex also lived under the alias “Zach” with a French family who took him in in 2021.
Eventually the pair had an argument and Alex decided to flee, returning home to England to be reunited with his grandmother and legal guardian.
Alex told The Sun of his mum: “She’s a great person and I love her but she’s just not a great mum“.
He hadn’t attended school in six years, and even tried desperately to enrol in one in France this year.
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