ALEX Batty has begged authorities not to jail his mum and granddad after the teenager was allegedly kidnapped during a holiday to Spain.
Alex, 17, who returned to the UK after six years missing in Europe with mum Melanie, 43, and grandad David, 64, said he did not want them to hand themselves in.
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Alex told Good Morning Britain: “That’s why I didn’t come home sooner. All I worried about was them getting locked up.”
The teen has returned to normal life in Oldham with his grandmother Susan Caruana – who was his legal guardian at the time of his disappearance.
Earlier this month, Greater Manchester Police confirmed it had launched a criminal investigation into his alleged kidnapping.
His grandmother, 68, added: “I used to think about Alex every single day and that was painful. But now I won’t think that way anymore.
“I don’t want them to go to prison, that’s the last thing that I want.”
Alex told the programme he had one friend his own age in the last six years.
“We stayed in a lot of caravans and a lot of houses,” he said.
“Always up mountains hours away from any kind of village or anything like that. One day I just thought okay, I can’t take this anymore.
“I knew that everything was already kind of in place to leave where we were so that If I were to have left they would be gone by the time police arrived.
“I’ve had one friend in the last six years that’s been my age. Everyone else has been a lot older than me.
“So I’m very comfortable talking to adults but with children my age, it’s kind of hard.”
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