Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV ...

Alex Batty, the British teenager who disappeared aged 11 before being found alive in France six years later, is opening up about the ordeal in a new BBC documentary, Kidnapped By My Mum. Now 20, Alex ...

For the first time, Alex Batty is telling his story in a brand new documentary – Kidnapped by My Mum. The documentary retraces the route of Alex's disappearance across Spain and France, uncovering not ...

An 11-year-old boy who went missing for six years has contacted his mother for the first time since he escaped her commune in France. Alex Batty, now 20, disappeared in 2017 after going on holiday ...

Alex Batty has told of his 'complicated' relationship with his mother after she allegedly 'abducted' him at aged just 11. Alex, now 20, went missing from Oldham in 2017 after going on holiday to Spain ...

COLD, wet and walking along a roadside in the early hours of the morning, the 17-year-old teenager was so scared that he could hear himself breathing. When a van stopped and the driver asked if he ...

Alex Batty has shared an update on his relationship with his mum, ahead of a new documentary following his kidnapping. In 2023, Alex, then 17 years old, was found in the French Pyrenees after being ...

Alex Batty made headlines worldwide in 2017 after disappearing with his mum and grandfather during what should have been a brief family getaway. Neither adult had legal custody, sparking an ...

Alex Batty made headlines worldwide back in 2017 after disappearing with his mum and grandad on what was meant to be a brief family holiday. Neither adult held legal guardianship and an international ...

It was the middle of the night on a rainy day in December 2023, when a delivery driver drove past a teenager walking at the side of an unlit, mountain road in the foothills of the Pyrenees in ...