A British boy who said he was ‘kidnapped’ and taken to a ‘spiritual commune’ by his mother and grandfather six years ago reportedly told the man who found him after a four-day hike across a French mountain range that his mum ‘was a little crazy’.
Alex Batty, from Oldham, Lancashire, was just 11 when he did not return from a holiday to Spain with his mother Melanie, then 37, and grandfather David, then 58, in 2017. His grandmother and legal