Alex Batty could have been found last month after British and French authorities failed to alert each other after he tried to enrol at a local school without any identity cards, it has been alleged.
The boy, now 17, has text his grandmother “I love you. I want to come home” ahead of an emotional return to Oldham after spending the last six years living in a “nomadic spiritual community” in the Pyrenees mountains with his mother.
