Teenager Alex Batty had been missing for six agonising years when he was found wandering along a dark road in a remote corner of the French Pyrenees.
That moment in December 2023 should have marked the final chapter in an extraordinary story, which began when his conspiracy theorist mother and grandfather snatched him as an 11-year-old from the care of his loving grandmother, who was his legal guardian.
Instead, it triggered an avalanche of questions which, to this day, have been left without satisfactory answers.
How did Melanie and David Batty manage to keep Alex for so long despite widely publicised Interpol appeals
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