Alex Batty, the British teenager who was found in France after disappearing for 6 years, breaks his silence: ‘I was lying’

A British teenager who resurfaced in France six years after disappearing when he was 11 has told a newspaper he has decided Return to Britain Because he wanted a better future. Alex PattyNow 17, he also said he lied about details of his escape to protect his mother and grandfather from police.

Patty disappeared while in Spain with his mother and grandfather in October 2017 turns up In a mountainous area in southern France last week.

Patty He told The Sun In an interview published on Friday he chose to leave the duo after getting tired of drifting around Europe with them.

“I realized this was not a great way to live for my future,” said the teenager, who returned under the legal guardianship of his maternal grandmother in Oldham, northern England.

“Moving around. No friends, no social life. I work, work, work and not studying. This is the life I imagined I would live if I stayed with my mother.”

Paty was found walking near Toulouse by a delivery driver earlier this month. He was in good health.

The teenager told French investigators that he lived in a “spiritual community” and did not stay in the same place for more than several months.

“She’s a great person and I love her but she’s not a great mother,” Patty told The Sun, referring to his mother Melanie Batty.

He added that she was “anti-government and anti-vaxxer” and her motto was “to become a slave to the regime.”

“I had a fight with my mother and I thought I would leave because I couldn’t live with her,” Patty said.

He told the newspaper that his grandfather, David Paty, is still alive, after French investigators reported that he died six months ago.

“I knew exactly where I was going”

Paty also said he had only been walking for two days when he was found, not the four he told French police.

The BBC reported that the delivery driver picked up Patty after spotting him on a road in the foothills of the French Pyrenees near Toulouse. The French student driver, Fabien Oxedini, said The teenager told him he had been walking in the Pyrenees for four days and four nightsSleeping during the day and walking at night.

But Patti told The Sun he lied to investigators to try to protect his mother, who he believed was planning to go to Finland, and his grandfather.

He told The Sun: “I was lying to try to protect my mum and grandfather, but I realized they were likely to be caught anyway.”

He added: “I wasn’t lost. I knew exactly where I was going.”

Patty added that he will be “busy studying and catching up” and that he hopes to eventually work in the technology sector.