Missing at Age 11, Found 6 Years Later in France: British Teenager Pops up on a Dark, Rainy Night

Missing at Age 11, Found 6 Years Later in France: British Teenager Pops up on a Dark, Rainy Night
Alex Batty in a file photo. Greater Manchester Police via AP
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LE PECQ, France—The vehicle’s headlights silhouetted the exhausted teenager walking alone in the rain in deepest rural France, with a skateboard tucked under his arm.

“I said to myself, ‘That’s strange. It’s 3 am in the morning, it’s raining, he’s all by himself on the road between two villages,” delivery driver Fabien Accidini recounted.