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Alex Batty returns to UK after being missing abroad for six years

Source: PA Media

Alex Batty has returned to the UK six years after disappearing on holiday in Spain with his mother and grandfather, police have said.

Detectives told a press conference at Greater Manchester Police headquarters that the teenager, who was 11 when he went missing and is now 17, met his step-grandfather at Toulouse airport earlier on Saturday before flying back to the UK.

They are yet to take a statement from him and are still to establish whether a criminal investigation into his disappearance

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