All news on the topic: Missing persons

David Batty, the grandfather of missing British teenager Alex Batty, is said to be alive and well in France, his neighbours have claimed - it comes after authorities said he was dead

Teenager Alex Batty, found six years after he went missing with his mother and grandfather, headed back home to Manchester tonight accompanied by British police officers

The three Israeli hostages accidentally shot dead by the IDF earlier this week were waving a white cloth on a stick and shouting in Hebrew, according to officials

Julian De Bono, 63, last spotted in the Yarmouth Road area of Ipswich at about 1.45am last Sunday, with police confirming a body had been found just under a week later

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Gaynor Lord was the 'happiest she'd been in a long time' before her sudden disappearance was followed by the tragic discovery of a body in a river, with her husband said to be 'completely lost'

Now 17 years old, Alex Batty has been missing for six years after his mother Melanie, 48, allegedly kidnapped him from the guardianship of his grandma, Susan Caruana, 68, from Oldham in Greater Manchester

Gaynor Lord, 55, disappeared in Norwich on December 8. Police confirmed a body was found in the River Wensum yesterday but formal identification has not been carried out yet

The 17-year-old, who spent the last six years living on a commune with his mother, was discovered on a rural road in France this week but had reportedly attempted to enrol in a local school

Six years after he went missing with his mother and grandfather Alex Batty was found earlier this week wandering along a country road in France and is set for an emotional reunion with his grandmother today

Norfolk Police said officers are still treating Gaynor Lord's disappearance as a missing person enquiry at this time. They say there is no evidence of third party involvement

Police have divers pulled a large object from the River Wensum in Norwich. Officers have confirmed they have found a body

Alex Batty spoke to his grandmother Susan Caruana for the first time in six years last night after he was found by a medical student wandering through the mountains in southern France

Gaynor Lord left work one hour early and is seen on CCTV hurrying through Norwich city centre towards Wensum Park, where her belongings were found by a member of the public

Alex Batty spoke to Susan Caruana on a video call from near Toulouse, France, where he was located and picked up by a lorry driver, Greater Manchester Police said

Susan Caruana, Alex Batty's legal guardian and grandmother, has revealed she has spoken to her grandson for the first time since he was found wandering alone near Toulouse, France

Maureen Batty spoke to The Mirror as nephew Alex Batty was confirmed safe and well on Thursday after he was picked up on a road in the south of France by a lorry driver

Alex Batty, from Oldham, who has been found after going missing in 2017, wrote a Facebook message from France to grandma Susan Caruana saying "I love you I want to come home"

The aunt of missing British teenager Alex Batty from Oldham, Greater Manchester, spoke out after French gendarmes confirmed he had been found in the south of France

Teenager Alex Batty from Oldham, Greater Manchester, had been walking for four days when he was found on a roadside in the south of France by a Samaritan lorry driver

Alex Batty - a British child who went missing for six years - confided in a French lorry driver who found him walking alone on an isolated road - telling him "my mother kidnapped me"

Mother Katie Ferguson was reported missing to authorities on November 2 and it remains a mystery what happened to her as she was traveling back to Wyoming from Alabama with her two kids

Alex Batty, who is from Oldham, Greater Manchester, went missing while travelling with family members in Marbella, Spain when he was just 11 and hadn't been seen since

Gaynor Lord, a mum of three from Riverside, Norwich, was last seen in the city centre, near the cathedral, on Friday afternoon and its is believed she headed for Wensum Park

The search for Gaynor Lord has reached its seventh day and, as a eyewitness came forward yesterday, police found some of Ms Lord's belongings, including clothing, near the River Wensum