Police drop investigation into how Oldham boy vanished for six years

Greater Manchester police close child abduction inquiry, saying it is what Alex Batty and his family want

Police have dropped an investigation into the disappearance of a boy from Oldham who turned up in France six years after going missing.

Alex Batty was taken to Spain by his mother, Melanie, in 2017 and they did not return home in defiance of a court order that had granted custody to his grandmother.