“This story is suspect!”
It’s from the Daily Mail in the U.K. That would be how a Brit would talk. That said, The Mail usually has good information (better a lot of times than our own press) so maybe they were paraphrasing what was said.
You may euphamistically call it paraphrasing, but it appears in quotes, or rather quotes within quotes. Which, if it isn’t what the kid said, to me is outright lying.