These are the primary photos of teenager Alex Batty in France ‘residing in plain sight’.
The images reveal a smiling Alex, 17, visiting a college, biking alongside a disused railway line and sitting at a pc display.
They arrive after the lacking lad spoke for the primary time of his ‘off-grid life-style’ for the final six years after he disappeared together with his mum Melanie and granddad David.
Earlier this week talking to The Solar, he mentioned of his mum: ‘She’s an incredible particular person and I really like her however she’s simply not an incredible mum.’
The photographs obtained solely by MailOnline come from Frederic Hambye and Ingrid Beauve, house owners of a French farmhouse referred to as Gite de la Bastide, the place Alex stayed in the course of the time he was lacking overseas.
The images reveal a smiling Alex, 17, residing his life in France after allegedly being kidnapped
He’s additionally seen enrolling in an IT faculty in southeast France, amazingly giving his actual identify
The photographs obtained solely by MailOnline come from Frederic Hambye and Ingrid Beauve, house owners of a French farmhouse referred to as Gite de la Bastide. Alex is pictured right here biking
One in every of them was taken in June at a prestigious IT secondary faculty in Perpignan, southeast France, the place eager pc fanatic Alex tried to enrol as a pupil, amazingly giving his actual identify.
Lecturers at Ecole 42 had been so impressed with him passing his on-line utility however alarm bells rang when he gave them the false identify of Zack Edwards – and when he ultimately gave his actual identify surprised employees came upon who he was by Googling him.
Principal Gero Vigney realised he was wished and alerted police however they did nothing, he mentioned: ‘Once I arrived on the police station, it was in the midst of a nationwide police strike, so I used to be requested to return again at 3pm.
‘I feel everybody discovered themselves confronted with a state of affairs they weren’t presupposed to be in, however it irritated me a bit of as a result of we had been taking in a minor who had been lacking for six years.’
He added: ‘I gave him (police officer) all the data, even the tackle of the lodge the place he was staying with the lady who had accompanied him.
Earlier this week talking to The Solar, he mentioned of his mum: ‘She’s an incredible particular person and I really like her however she’s simply not an incredible mum’
Alex, from Oldham, was 11 when he didn’t return from a vacation to Spain
‘I used to be instructed that the investigation was underway and that we might be saved knowledgeable, however since July we by no means heard any information.’
Frederic and Ingrid, instructed MailOnline, how they’d been ‘delighted’ to absorb Alex who they knew as Zach and would usually keep at their farmhouse together with his grandfather who they knew as Peter.
They arrived in the summertime of 2023 and would keep ‘on and off’ for a number of months and do odd jobs in change for board and lodgings, whereas mom Melanie was by no means seen.
Ingrid instructed MailOnline: ‘Zach or Alex had a beautiful time when he stayed with us, he had a room to himself mentioned he had entry to the web and will come and go as he happy.
Alex Batty (pictured left) together with his mom Melanie and grandfather David six years in the past
Alex is pictured together with his mom and grandfather after allegedly being kidnapped when he was 11
Melanie Batty sitting subsequent to her father David Batty and her son Alex Batty (far left) at a market in June 2023
‘In the summertime he was with us and he wished to go to a neighborhood faculty and we inspired him to try this however he wanted ID papers to take action and he mentioned he would discover a approach of getting again to Britain to get them.
‘He left us earlier this month and mentioned he was going again to Britain to get them after which we noticed his face all around the media. We simply wish to each want him properly and are blissful that he’s again together with his true household.
‘He’s 17 and is filled with plans, and now he’ll have the ability to lastly realise them. We would not change a factor of what occurred within the time we had with him and now the stress is behind our hearts are bursting with pleasure for him.’
Alex flew again to Manchester final weekend and is now being sorted by his grandmother Susan Caruana, his authorized guardian, after ‘wandering’ throughout Europe for six years in what he described as a ‘ache the axx life-style’.
He instructed The Solar how his mom would go away him for ‘months on finish’ and ultimately he walked 22 miles over two days earlier this month, earlier than being noticed by a supply driver who picked him up after which alerted police.
On Friday Better Manchester police mentioned they’d launched a prison investigation into his disappearance throughout a vacation to Spain together with his mom and grandfather in 2017 and he has been interviewed by officers.
In interviews with The Solar, Alex has revealed he lied about some particulars of his escape, with the intention to ‘shield my mum and granddad however I realise that they are in all probability gonna get caught anyway’.
French authorities had mentioned they believed his grandfather was lifeless however MailOnline has established he’s alive and properly and was seen earlier his month ‘mowing the garden’ in a village within the Pyrenees.