Alex Batty lived in a holiday cottage in France for months at a time as his mother searched for a place to live - and he hoped to get a British ID so he could learn computer science, it has emerged.
A French couple say they only discovered Alex Batty’s true identity last week – when his six years abroad ended when he was picked up by a French delivery driver who handed him over to the police.
From the rural guesthouse in France where Alex had been living to mother Melanie's move to Finland and conspiracy theory beliefs, here's everything we know about the British teen's remarkable story
The mother of British teenager Alex Batty has been described as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ who believed Covid-19 was manufactured to control people, a friend has said.