Alex Batty was 11 years old when he left the UK with his mother and grandfather for what was supposed to be a holiday to Marbella. He did not come home for six years. Now 20, he is speaking publicly about what that time was really like in a new BBC documentary titled Kidnapped By My Mum.
According to BBC, coverage of the documentary Alex described a nomadic life spent moving between communes and rural areas across Spain, Morocco and south-west France. He was kept out of school throughout those years. He said he gradually grew unhappy with the lifestyle and spoke about a moment that stayed with him: sitting at a cafe near a school and hearing the bell ring as children came out. "I cried my eyes out because you know, I'd had enough," he said.
