Video: 'Forest boy' comes clean: I made up story to escape debts and fatherhood

Tuesday 30 April 2013 20:03 BST

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Robin van Helsum, a Dutch citizen who is now 21, turned up at Berlin’s town hall in September 2011 saying he has 'all alone in the world' and that he had lived five years in the woods. But everything was too suspicious and his true identity has come out to light. Watch video report below:

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