Alex Batty and grandmother speak out in first TV interview since return

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Alex Batty and grandmother speak out in first TV interview since return. Batty who was found in France after going missing for six years says that he does not want his mother and grandfather to get into trouble over his disappearance. Source: Good Morning Britain, ITV

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00:00 I used to think about Alex every single day and that was painful.

00:04 But now I won't think that way anymore.

00:09 I don't want them to go to prison.

00:11 That is the last thing that I want.

00:13 That's why I didn't come home sooner.

00:15 All I worried about was them getting locked up.

00:18 We stayed in a lot of caravans and we stayed in a lot of houses,

00:21 always up mountains, hours away from any kind of village or anything like that.

00:25 One day I just thought, "OK, I can't take this anymore."

00:29 I knew that everything was already kind of in place

00:32 for them to leave where we were.

00:34 So if I were to have left, they would be gone by the time the police arrived.

00:38 I've had one friend in the past six years that's been my age.

00:43 Everyone else that I've known has all been a lot older than me.

00:47 So I'm very comfortable talking to adults,

00:49 but with children my age, it's completely different.

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