[HIGHLIGHTS] “I hope the police don’t find them”: two months after his return to England, Alex Batty confides

Alex Batty, now 18, was kidnapped by his mother and grandfather in Spain in 2017. The young Briton surrendered to the police near Toulouse in December 2023.

Alex Batty now lives in Greater Manchester in a house with his grandmother Susan Caruana. He tells the British press how he is readjusting to life in England. “I still don’t feel like I’m back,” he tells The Mirror newspaper. ‘Mom did what she did out of love. That's what she thought was best’