Alex Batty's grandfather died six months before the teenager decided to leave French commune and return to his grandmother in Britain because his mother insisted they should move to Finland, police reveal

The British boy who was allegedly kidnapped by his mother and grandfather to live in a ‘spiritual community’ six years ago has told police his grandparent died six months before he decided to flee the French commune, cops revealed today. 

Alex Batty, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was just 11 when he did not return from a holiday to Spain with his mother Melanie, then 37, and grandfather David, then 58, in 2017. 

His heartbroken grandmother and legal guardian, Susan Caruana, has spent an…