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Missing boy found in France ‘wanted to see grandmother and have normal future’

Source: PA Media

A British schoolboy who has been discovered in France after he was believed to have been abducted by his mother six years ago “wanted to see his grandmother and have a normal future”, according to the delivery driver who found him.

Alex Batty, who is now 17, went missing in 2017 after going on.

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