Alex Batty's mother 'thought Covid was a state conspiracy'
British expats who claim to know the woman say she thought pandemic was ‘created to control people’
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British expats who claim to know the woman say she thought pandemic was ‘created to control people’
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.
Teenager returned to the UK on Saturday after being found in France - six years after going to Spain with his mother and grandfather
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