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A-level joy for privately schooled baby kidnapping victim

Posted on 19th August 2008

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In 1990, newborn baby Alex Griffiths was kidnapped from her mother's hospital bedside for three weeks.

Now, 18 years later, she has gained an A and two Bs at A-level thanks to her education at Polam Hall private school.

And this was entirely funded by the £110,000 that her mother Dawn received after selling her story to the Sun after her baby was returned to her, having been taken by a woman posing as a health worker.

"If I had gone to a normal, mainstream school, I probably would have done all right but I wouldn't have got such good results. It's strange to think that I probably wouldn't have done as well as I did if I hadn't been kidnapped when I was a baby," the Times reported Alex as saying.

The privately educated teenager is now planning to continue her studies at the University of Manchester, pursuing a maths degree.

Independent school pupils achieved fantastic A-level results last week, with three times as many gaining straight As than their state school counterparts.
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