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Alex Batty’s grandmother reveals heartbreaking final phone call

Source: The Sun

Alex Batty’s grandmother has revealed details of the final call she had with her grandson before he vanished for six years.

Susan Caruana, who was her grandson’s legal guardian at the time, feared she would never again see then 11-year-old Alex after speaking with him on the phone in September 2017.

The British teenager, now aged 17, was in Spain with his mother Melanie Batty, 43, and grandfather David Batty, 64, on what the pair had said would be a week-long vacation.

British teenager Alex Batty is now 17 years old (The Sun)

However, Ms Caruana told that moments after she had finished

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