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Alex Batty ‘doesn’t want his mother to get in trouble’

Source: PA Media

Teenager Alex Batty, who vanished for six years abroad before coming home just before Christmas, has said he does not want his mother to get into trouble.

Alex, now 17, went missing aged 11 in 2017 after his mother Melanie Batty, who was not with his grandfather.

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