Boy abducted by mum has renewed 'sense of purpose'
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Boy abducted by mum has renewed 'sense of purpose'Image caption, Alex Batty has been working at a waste management site for three monthsByDan WareingNorth WestPublished1 hour agoAlex Batty, who disappeared for six years after being abducted by his mother as a child, has described feeling a renewed "sense of purpose" after finding work.Batty, from Oldham, was declared missing by his grandmother in 2017, aged 11, after his mother and grandfather failed to return him from a holiday in Spain and instead moved to FranceHe spent the following years in isolation before he was spotted by a delivery driver in December 2023 in the foothills of the Pyrenees in the south-west of the country.
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