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By Bradley Jolly Alex Batty wrote his mother a heartbreaking note – in which he said he loved her but was capable of living on his own – before he left the commune in France. The youngster penned the letter minutes before he fled the home in the Pyrenees with the intention to study computing at university. The 17-year-old boy also urged Melanie not be angry with him for walking out of their home for a new life. But one final argument tipped him over the edge and he realised he had enough of the “pain in the a**” lifestyle forced on him by his mum. Although the argument was trivial, Alex packed…

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