A young Brit who disappeared six years ago tells his story.
- December 22, 2023
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17 year old British boy Alex Battywho was found in France after being kidnapped without custody by his mother and grandfather for six years has broken his silence
17 year old British boy Alex Battywho was found in France after being kidnapped without custody by his mother and grandfather for six years has broken his silence for the first time.
Newspaper Sun This Friday he published the first interview with the teenager since he was found by a delivery driver in a mountainous region of France on the 13th.
In her, Batty talked about how he decided to leave his mother and grandfather.who, after the kidnapping of a young man when he was 11 years old in 2017, began a “wandering” life in groups that were part of the “spiritual community.”
Alex Batty in 2017.
According to him, he decided to leave after a quarrel with his mother, because of which he came to the conclusion that “he cannot live with her.”
Added to this was his desire to become a software specialist, which had grown over the past year, making him realize that nomadism “wasn’t a good way of life” for the future I wanted.
I don’t know what would have happened if I had stayed with my mother, but the last few years have given me an idea: constant moving, no friends, no social life, work and no opportunity to study.
The young man noted that he had already raised the question of the possibility escape from mother and grandfatherwhich she was against, but to which her grandfather replied that she should do “whatever is best for him.”
Betty spoke out in her statements.
She’s a wonderful person and I love her, but she’s a bad mother.
On Monday, December 11, he ran away from the farm where they lived with a backpack containing clothes, a skateboard, a flashlight, a Swiss Army knife and money until he met the courier two days later.
To prevent the police from finding his relatives, he invented that he had been walking in the mountains for four days and, despite knowing where he was, pretended to be lost in the French commune of Quillan.
Betty now lives in the English town of Oldham, near Manchester, with his grandmother Susan, who has become his guardian until he reaches adulthood in two months, he notes. Sun.
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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