dec 22, 2023 - GMP Launch Criminal Investigation into Batty Case

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Police say they have launched a criminal investigation into the alleged child abduction of 17-year-old Alex Batty, who went missing while on holiday in Spain at the age of 11.

Officers from Greater Manchester Police have now interviewed Alex following his return from France.

Police previously said they would not be able to confirm the investigation's nature until Alex provided a statement.

The teenager, from Oldham, was found walking in the French Pyrenees.

He was picked up by a delivery driver who spotted him on a road near Toulouse in the early hours of a rainy morning last week, six years after going missing.

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