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Missing Date: Tuesday 01st January 2008 Missing From: Riviera del Sol Mijas, Malaga Missing Country: Spain Sex: Female DOB: 07/Feb/1992 Age Now: 18 |
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She was last seen about 22:00 hours day 01/01/08, when leaving the home of a friend named Ashley, with whom she was in her house since the day on December 31, located at Calle Ana Maria, B 53, Urbanizacion Calypso, the Complex Adarve, Mijas Costa (Malaga), and went to their homes located in the Urbanizacion Riviera del Sol, Las Lomas de Complex Riviera Club, 9, Mijas Costa (Malaga). ANYONE WITH INFORMATION CONTACT: |
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Recent theft linked to Amy's disappearance
News item from May 6, 2010: Burglars make off with important papers relating to Amy's disappearance. Evidence links theft to her disappearance.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/thieves-take-vital-papers-in-hunt-for-missing-amy-2166609.html
Plea to festival fans over missing Amy
THE mother of missing Amy Fitzpatrick is launching two new attempts to seek help in the search for her daughter.
Audrey Fitzpatrick said 85,000 cups bearing a photograph of Amy were to be distributed to concert fans at a huge event in Spain in the coming days.
She and her partner are hiring an aircraft to pull a giant photograph of Amy across the skies over Southern Spain.
The bold new moves come after a €1m reward for information to solve the mystery of Amy's disappearance failed to create a breakthrough in the police investigation.
Amy was 15 when she vanished two-and-a-half years ago on the Costa del Sol in Spain. The young Dubliner who moved to Spain with her mother, brother, and her mother's partner disappeared on the night of January 1, 2008, after leaving a friend's home in Calahonda.
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"There is going to be a huge concert in a stadium in Malaga on June 20 and the organisers have agreed that we can donate the cups which can be used by vendors at the concert," said Audrey.
"Each cup will have a photograph of Amy and a telephone number for information," she told the Herald.
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http://tinyurl.com/3a4ovza
No solid leads as 1m euro reward period in hunt for Amy ends
DESPITE the 30 day deadline ending last Wednesday (article dated Friday 21 May 10) for the public to claim the reward of one million euros for information leading to finding missing expat teenager Amy Fitzpatrick, she remains just that: missing. The reward money was provided by four family friends in Ireland, and was deposited in an account where it remained until Wednesday May 19, enough time, her mother Audrey believed, for someone to come forward with reliable information.
At the time, Audrey said that she wants her daughter back, one way or another. At first, she said the family thought she had just run away, but now they believe that she may no longer be alive.
During this period Amy’s mother Audrey confirmed they received many phone calls, and a couple of weeks into the 30 days she received an anonymous tip off. She was told that a man serving a prison sentence in the UK may have information of interest in the hunt for Amy.
The anonymous caller suggested this man was in Spain at the time of her disappearance and knew Amy. The identity of the man is known to Audrey. “There was at least five phone calls mentioning his name connecting him to Amy, as in he knew her,” said Audrey. “This only other news we have.” She added. She is set to fly to Gran Canaria on Monday “the 17th is my birthday and I don’t like being around here for it. This will be my third without Amy,” said Audrey.
http://tinyurl.com/34odakq
Amy Fitzpatrick - One Million Euro Reward For Information
Parents put up million euro reward for missing daughter information
The parents of a teenager missing in Spain have offered a one million euro (£879,000) reward for information leading to her discovery.
Irish expat Amy Fitzpatrick was 15 when she vanished as she walked home from a friend's house on the Costa de Sol in January 2008.
Police have failed to find any trace of her since.
Her mother Audrey and stepfather Dave Mahon have now announced the massive reward for information which locates Amy alive or dead.
The money has been donated by four anonymous friends of the couple.
Ms Fitzpatrick, 41, from Dublin, said at a press conference in Malaga: "This reward is for us to get Amy back one way or another.
"Some days we hope and pray Amy ran away but we know that's not the truth.
"Two years and three and a half months after her disappearance that's impossible.
"Some days we think she's alive, other days we think she's dead.
"Not knowing what's happened to her is awful.
Read More: http://tinyurl.com/y2secsa
Thinking of Amy
Thinking of Amy on her 18th Birthday
Thinking of Amy on her birthday
Candles lit across Europe for Amy
Family and friends are gathering this Sunday, 07 February across
Europe to mark the eighteenth birthday of missing Dublin girl AMY FITZPATRICK.
At 12 noon (local time) her mother will be leading a ceremony
lighting candles in Mijas, Spain, which will be matched in St Brendan’s Church
in Coolock, Dublin and all over the British Isles at 11 am GMT.
Amy’s mother Audrey says she wants people to light candles
for her daughter as she won’t be able to have a birthday cake.
The Coolock teenager hasn’t been seen since January 1st
2008 despite extensive searches and appeals. The Lucie Blackman Trust’s Missing
Abroad programme has an online appeal with hotlines and full details here.
The family was further rocked last year with the death of
Amy’s cousin, Irish pop star Beverly O’Sullivan, who died in a car crash in
India.
Amy’s mum, who calls her daughter ‘Buntin’, added this heart
rending message:
At
9.30am on a Friday the 7th of February 1992, my Amy came screaming into the
world, 2 weeks late, as she always is and stayed vocal till the last time I spoke
with her, when as always we ended our phone call saying I love you before
we said goodbye!
I know you’re always late baby but 2 YEARS now
is pushing it!
18 years old, a young woman but always a baby to me. I hope wherever you
are you’re safe and happy and you have a great 18th and whenever you’re
ready to come home I’ll be waiting to hold you, the same way I held you on the
day you were born and never let you go again.
All our love
Mam Dave & Dean
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Amy's 18th birthday
From Amy's site http://www.missingamy.net/
February 7 is Amy's birthday. Please light a candle for her. It's the closest thing to lighting real candles on a real birthday cake for her.
Thinking of Amy Fitzpatrick, missing 2 years
its a very sad thing that amy
its a very sad thing that amy is missing ...restart the campaige al the best finding amy from dubliner
New billboards in the hunt for Amy Fitzpatrick
The hunt still continues for the Irish girl, Amy Fitzpatrick, age 15, who went missing from her home in Mijas Costa in January 2008.
An Irish businessman who is a friend of the family, and prefers to remain anonymous, has funded large billboards to be placed in the area where she went missing. The billboards, one in English and the other in Spanish give a contact number for anyone who has information – 617 561 319 and remind people about the official website www.missingamy.net
Amy’s mother, Audrey, said that she hoped the billboards would prove a great help in leading them to Amy and that she would be eternally grateful for the gesture.
Source: Typically Spanish
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_23711.shtml
NEW BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN
Audrey and dave have put up some photos of the Billboards on thier website for Amy. www.missingamy.net
Hopefully these billboards will bring them some news and help them to find Amy and bring her home where she belongs.
If anyone does have any information on Amy's whereabouts please contact 0034 617 561 319 or email missingamy@live.co.uk
updated mailing address for fund
If you would like to donate to Amy's fund-raising account, here is the updated address (from http://www.missingamy.net/fundraising.htm)
THE OFFICE
CAMPING JARALES LOCAL 1
CALAHONDA
N-340KM
197 MIJAS COSTA
29649
MALAGA
SPAIN
mailing address for donations
If you would like to donate to Amy Fitzpatrick's Fundraising Account, here is the mailing address:
THE OFFICE
P.O. BOX 52
CAMPING JARALES LOCAL 1
CALAHONDA
N-340KM
197 MIJAS COSTA
29649
MALAGA
SPAIN
reference
P.S. Info comes from http://www.missingamy.net/fundraising.htm
New video for Amy Fitzpatrick
Amy Fitzpatrick's mother and stepfather have released this new video with the hope that it will refresh someone's memory following Amy's disappearance.
Their daughter Amy, who is Irish, disappeared in Riviera Del Sol Spain on 1st January 2008 and hasn't been seen since. They are desperate to find Amy and need everyone's help to spread the word that Amy is still missing.
If you are going on holidays this year please keep your eye out for Amy. You can see all Amy's details and contact information on her official website http://www.missingamy.net. There is a poster on Amy's site that you can download and perhaps post up in the area in which you live. Anything you can do in this way will help.
What a lack of compassion!
A chilling website (from August 3, 2009) says that Amy's Mom faced eviction because she had taken off from work and exhausted her savings to search for Amy.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/missing-amys-mother-to-be-evicted-from-home-in-spain-1849619.html
Fears that Amy (when and if she is released by her abductors) will return to the house and not find her Mom.
Search for teen moves to England
The family of a 17-year-old Irish girl who went missing near her home in Spain in 2008 has extended the search for her to England.
Amy Fitzpatrick left her friend's house in Mijas Costa at 10pm on New Year's Day 2008.
The Dublin teenager never arrived home and has not been heard from or seen since that night.
It is thought that Amy could now be in England and her family are desperate for any information.
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http://tinyurl.com/ps7sxb
Missing Amy Fitzpatrick - A mother's plea
My Daughter Amy Fitzpatrick is still missing.It is now over 19 months since she vanished without a trace and we need to find her.We have set up a new website with the hope that it will bring in some news on Amy.
The website address is http://www.missingamy.net. Please visit her site for all information on Amy’s disappearance.
We have uploaded some new pictures of Amy onto this site also.
The Lucie Blackman trust is assisting us with our search for Amy and they have set up a 24 hour hotline number for information on Amy’s disappearance and whereabouts these numbers are
In Spain: +34 951 242 878
In UK: +44 2380 988899
E-mail hotbox: amy@missingabroad.org
Their website is http://www.lucieblackmantrust.org
Both the hotline and the site are monitored 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You can contact them in the strictest of confidentiality and you do not have to leave your name.
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http://tinyurl.com/phze7z
New website for missing Amy Fitzpatrick
Amy's family have a new website for her http://www.missingamy.net/
There is a guestbook too if anyone wants to sign it, I'm sure that her family would appreciate the comments of support x
Was This Amy's Hideout
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DESAPARECIDA AMY FITZPATRICK
El día de Año Nuevo de 2008, a las 10pm, Amy Fitzpatrick dijo adiós a su amiga Ashley Rose, con quien se había estaba cuidado el hermano de Ashley en la casa de su amiga en Mijas Costa. Amy debería haber llegado a su casa en la Urbanización Riviera del Sol en Mijas Costa, cerca de Fuengirola, a las 10:10 pm aproximadamente, ya que era sólo un corto paseo. Sin embargo, nunca llegó a su casa y no se ha oído de o visto desde esa noche.
Amy tenia 15 anos en el momento de su desaparición, tiene pelo negro, (pero tambien lo tenia rubia teñida), ojos azules y tiene una complexión pálida. Es 1.65m de altura y vestía de color oscuro un chándal de terciopelo negro y una camiseta con la palabra "DIESEL" en diferentes colores cuando fue visto por última vez. Aunque Amy es irlandés habla con un acento Inglés como es la zona es predominantemente de británicos. Amy también tuvo su derecho frontal del diente reconstruido hace 3 años. Ella no tenía dinero, teléfono o pasaporte, ya que estaba todavía en el pasaporte de su mamá. Ella llevaba la ropa de su amiga y en una bolsa tenia su propia ropa sucia.
Su cumpleano era el dia 7 de febrero 2009. Amy es originaria de Clare Hall en la parte norte de Dublín y se trasladó a la Costa del Sol con nosotros hace cuatro años.
Su ordenador y el teléfono han sido verificados completamente y se encontró nada que sugiera que ha abandonado voluntariamente con alguien. Amy tiene muchos sitios en los sitios de redes sociales, por ejemplo, bebo, My Space, Face Book y MSN y ninguno de ellos se han tocado desde que desapareció.
Aunque la probabilidad de que ella puede haber dejado voluntariamente se desvanece con cada mes, la falta de cualquier prueba mantiene una posibilidad, no obstante. Puede darse el caso de que, debido a la cantidad de publicidad en cuestión, ella tiene miedo de ponerse en contacto.
No hemos abandonado la esperanza de sale nueva información, a pesar del tiempo transcurrido. Pedimos a los ciudadanos para proporcionar información: Podría ser residentes en la zona, podría ser cualquier persona que estaba de vacaciones allí en ese momento, podría ser cualquier persona en absoluto. Por favor, mantenga sus oídos y ojos abiertos. Por favor, envíanos toda la información que no importa lo insignificante que pueda parecer. Tiene que haber una persona que sabe algo en alguna parte.
Nadie ha sido capturado, lo que significa que aún están por ahí. Si sucedió una vez puede ocurrir de nuevo.
Este ha sido el año más difícil de nuestras vidas sin Amy y la necesitamos para que podamos suigir nuestras vidas como antes.
Estamos aún más cerca de no encontrar Amy y pedimos a todos los que nos pueden ayudar si sabes algo sobre ella. Llamen los números correspondientes abajo.
Madre de Amy: 0034 617 561 319
correo electronico: missingamy@live.co.uk
Guardia Civil: 0034 952 479 030
Para hablas a la policia en Ingles 0034 636 079 619
Pagina oficial de Amy es: www.missingamy.com
Pagina de bebo de Amy es: http://www.bebo.com/helpustofindamy
Para descargar el cartel de Amy por favor haga clic en este enlace:
https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=5cb00f62-33dc-454c-89d3-8b339d39df3f
Si tienes una página web, por favor considere el establecimiento del cartel Amy o enlazar a su cartel en su sitio.
Gracias
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Amy's mum in plea to ambassador
The mother of missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick has an appointment with the Spanish ambassador to Ireland today to seek help in the search for her daughter.
Audrey Fitzpatrick said she was glad to have the opportunity to ask Ambassador Mercedes Rico in Dublin to assist in getting more action from the Spanish authorities.
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Audrey told the Herald she would ask the ambassador today to do what she could to persuade the local authorities in the Costa del Sol to erect posters and billboards with Amy's photograph and details in the hope it might lead to a breakthrough.
"The local mayor said no when we asked him to put up billboards but we think they would be a great help. I got the idea when I saw billboards in Gran Canaria put up by the local council seeking information on a missing seven-year-old boy.
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http://tinyurl.com/omqa6o
Amys listing on Interpol
http://www.interpol.int/public/Data/Children/Missing/Notices/Data/2008/10/2008_1410.asp
TEARFUL AUDREY: MAYOR WON'T HELP US FIND AMY
LOST TEENS MUM ROCKED BY SPANISH SNUB
By Gerard Couzens the Irish Sun
Monday 30th March 2009
Missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick's Mum has lashed a Spanish Mayor- for not helping to publicize her search.
Dubliner Audrey 40, walked out of a meeting with the bigwig in tears after he told her the credit crunch meant he could not get involved in putting up posters of her girl.
Venting her anger yesterday, she said “I felt furious when I walked out of the meeting and I still feel angry. We've lived in Spain for five years, we’ve bought a home here, Amy grew up here and this is where she disappeared from.
" I wasn't asking for the world, just a few posters to put at bus stops and maybe the local bus station.
“He told me the economic situation in Spain was not right for it and I had to leave as I could feel the emotion getting the better of me.
" I bet if it was his Daughter or the Spanish Prime ministers Daughter that was missing, he wouldn’t be taking about economics it’s disgusting."
Audrey and Partner Dave Mahon 36 met up last Friday with socialist Antonio Sanchez, Mayor of the Costa del Sol resort of Mijas where they live.
She had requested the meeting after travelling to the canary island to meet the parents of two missing Spanish children there- including the mum of seven year old boy Yeremi Vargas who vanished in 2007.
Audrey Said: “The local authorities were wonderful in the canaries. They'd put up posters of Yeremi everywhere and they printed up loads for us without me even asking. " I hadn't thought of asking my local council to help before"
" I wasn't necessarily asking the town hall to pay for the posters but I wanted them to at least help us cut through some of the red tape.
“Our meeting with the mayor must've lasted less than three minutes- it was more or less a straight away 'No'."
Spanish leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pledged his countries full commitment to the search for missing Amy 17, just two months ago.
He told Taoiseach Brian Cowen: “I’d like to assure you the Spanish police are carrying out their investigation with the utmost diligence...”
Amy Disappeared on New Year’s Day last year as she left a friend’s house to walk home along an unlit path she used as a shortcut.
No one was available for comment yesterday at Mijas town hall
MOTHERS DAY
Audrey has done up a video for Mothers day to appeal for help to find Amy. Listen to the words of the song while you watch the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPWMMTSRfpY&feature=player_embedded
Thinking of Amy and Her Family
A beautiful video and I hope you receive some positive news soon.
PLEASE HELP FIND AMY FITZPATRICK
To My Child
Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I see your face and laugh when I feel like crying.
Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear, and smile and say how perfect it is.
Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry, and pick you up and take you to the park to play.
Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let you teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together.
Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off, and sit with you in the backyard and blow bubbles...
Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumble when you scream and whine for the ice cream truck, and I will buy you one if he comes by.
Just for this afternoon, I won't worry about what you are going to be when you grow up, or second guess every decision I have made where you are concerned.
Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and I won't stand over you trying to fix them.
Just for this afternoon, I will take us to McDonald's and buy us both a Happy Meal so you can have both toys...
Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you a story about how you were born and how much I love you.
Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the tub and not get angry.
Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch and count all the stars.
Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside you for hours, and miss my favourite TV shows.
Just for this evening when I run my finger through your hair as you pray, I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever given.
I will think about the mothers and fathers who are searching for their missing children, the mothers and fathers who are visiting their children's graves instead of their bedrooms, and mothers and fathers who are in hospital rooms watching their children suffer senselessly, and screaming inside that they can't handle it anymore.
And when I kiss you goodnight I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer. It is then, that I will thank God for you, and ask him for nothing, except one more day...
They are just words on a screen but to her family, those words are a nightmare scenario that they have to live through everyday. Please read them and please help.
ON NEW YEAR’S DAY 2008, at 10pm, Amy Fitzpatrick said goodbye to her close friend Ashley Rose, with whom she had been babysitting Ashley’s brother at her friend’s house in Mijas Costa. Amy should have arrived at her home on the urbanisation Riviera del Sol in Mijas Costa, near Fuengirola, at about 10:10pm, as it was only a short walk away. But, she never arrived home and has not been heard from or seen since that night.
Amy was 15 at the time of her disappearance; she has black hair, (it could be dyed blonde again), blue eyes and has a pale complexion. She is 1.65m tall and was wearing dark coloured crushed velvet tracksuit bottoms and a black T-shirt with the word “DIESEL” in various different colours when she was last seen. Although Amy is Irish she speaks with an English accent as the area she is from is predominantly British. Amy also had her right front tooth rebuilt 3 years ago. She had no money, phone or passport as she was still on her Mum’s passport. She was wearing her friend’s clothes and carrying a bag of her own dirty clothes.
Although the probability that she may have left voluntarily fades with each passing month, lack of any useful evidence keeps it a possibility, none the less. It may be the case that due to the amount of publicity involved, she is afraid to make contact.
We have not given up hope that new information will come to light, despite the time elapsed. We are calling on the public to provide information: It could be residents in the area, it could be anyone who was on holiday there at the time, it could be anyone at all. Please keep your ears and eyes open. Please send us any information you have no matter how insignificant it may seem. There has to be one person somewhere who knows something.
No-one has been caught, which means they are still out there. If it happened once it can happen again.
This has been the hardest year of our lives without Amy and we need her back so we can get our lives back on track.Amy’s Mam: 0034 617 561 319
SPANISH POLICE 0034 952 479 030
To speak to the police in English 0034 636 079 619
El Expreso Reportaje Plataforma niños desaparecidos
El Expreso Reportaje Plataforma niños desaparecidos
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Liam Brady on Amys Case
A message from Amy's Dad
I am heart broken to be saying this, Amy missed her 16th Birthday and Saturday 7th February she will be 17 and Amy still has not been found. The past year has been the hardest year of my life not knowing where my daughter is or what has happened to Amy. Myself and my sons Dean and Alex will be going to our local church to light a candle for Amy on her birthday and the rest of my family will be going to there own local church to do the same.
As you are aware Liam Brady one of the top Private Investigator has been hired by myself and my sister to help in the search for Amy. I would like to thank the many people that have come forward with information and I am appealing to anyone that knows anything to continue to contact Liam no matter how insignificant you think it is.
We have been in contact with Aer Lingus in Malaga Airport and they have passed a new appeal poster with Liam's details to the Aena Airport Manager who will pass the appeal poster to be placed in the Guardia Civil offices, Police offices, Security, airlines etc. If you live in Spain please make people aware
Liam is working on Amy's case and pass his website to them www.liambrady.ie
Amy if you can see this, I promised at the begining of this nightmare I would never give up on the search for you and I will continue until I find you. We will make sure no stones are left unturned.
If you can see this please call me on 00353857542452
All my love
Dad, & your brothers Dean & Alex
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Thinking Of Amy On Her Birthday
Birthday Plea For Missing Girl - Amy Fitzpatrick
The father of a schoolgirl who went missing on Spain's Costa del Sol is launching a fresh appeal for information to mark her 17th birthday.
Amy Fitzpatrick, originally from Dublin, vanished on January 1, 2008, when she was 15 years old.
The girl had left her friend's house at about 10pm to take a 10-minute walk to her home in Mijas, near Fuengirola - but she never returned.
Her father Christopher Fitzpatrick, also from Dublin, is now urging anyone involved in the disappearance to come forward.
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Amy's posters to download
POSTER WITH AMY FITZPATRICK SARA MORALES AND YEREMI VARGAS
https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=a4f26d03-1d17-419b-88d5-...
AMY'S POSTERS
https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=60f61eba-7f29-4801-a1f9-...
https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=81233ba8-60f3-4166-878f-...
Mothers of missing children come together
Audrey Fitzpatrick, mother of missing 15 year old Amy, travels to the Canary Islands to join forces with the mothers of two other missing children.
Three of the mothers whose children have disappeared came together at Vecindario on Gran Canaria yesterday to hand out some 4,000 posters of their missing loved ones.
The mothers of Sara Morales and Yeremi Vargas, who both disappeared from Gran Canaria in 2006 and 2007, were joined by the mother of Amy Fitzpatrick, the Irish 15 year old who vanished from Mijas in Málaga on New Year’s Day last year.
Nieves Hernández, Ithaisa Suárez and Audrey Fitzpatrick say they want to create a new platform so that their children are not forgotten. The mother of Sara admitted that Christmas had been a difficult time for her, and she had been depressed of late, but that joining with the other mothers was a source of strength for her. All three women are convinced their children are still alive.
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_19829.shtml
Missing Amy
The parents of missing Amy travel to Gran Canaria to raise awareness of her disappearance
The family of Amy Fitzpatrick will have understood exactly how the parents of a young Gran Canarian girl felt earlier in the week when she went missing for several days.
Thankfully, it was a story with a happy end; a happy end that Amy’s mum, Audrey, is praying and waiting for. She’s travelled to Gran Canaria with Amy’s stepfather, Dave, to raise awareness of her daughter’s disappearance on January 1st 2008 from the Costa del Sol. Originally from Dublin, the family relocated to the mainland of Spain five years ago and although Amy’s accent sounded more English than Irish, she was capable of conversing well in Spanish, “and she never shut up talking!”
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http://www.roundtownnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id...
Amy’s father pleads for information
HE father of missing Coolock girl Amy Fitzpatrick is appealing to people who may have information about her disappearance to contact a private investigator who has taken on the case.
Liam A Brady, a professional special investigator, is now working on the case and hopes to re-examine all evidence and documentation where possible.
Christopher Fitzpatrick, Amy’s father, said the family knows there are people who have information that would help find his daughter.
“This is a special appeal to those who, for whatever reason, have chosen to remain silent or have not been able to share information up to now,” Mr Fitzpatrick told Northside People.
“Please do the right thing and share what you know. In Spain, the Guardia Civil can be contacted on +34636079619.
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http://www.dublinpeople.com/content/view/1477/57/
Family of missing Amy hire private investigator
The family of missing Irish girl Amy Fitzpatrick have hired a private investigator to try and find the missing teenager.
News of the move came after a Mass was held in Dublin this week to mark her disappearance in Spain a year ago.
Aunt Christine Kenny said the family were hopeful that a Tipperary-based private investigator, Liam A. Brady, could help make a breakthrough in the case.
Amy went missing after leaving a friend's house in the Costa Del Sol in Spain on the night of January 1 last year, aged 15 at the time.
She was living there with her mother Audrey and her partner, and was just two kilometres from home when she vanished.
Despite an intensive police investigation and appeals by her family, no trace of Amy has been found.
Ms Kenny confirmed yesterday that the private investigator had been engaged in recent weeks to help find the girl.
“Mr Brady is based in Nenagh. We are very hopeful that he and his highly-trained team are now looking at a number of possible leads,” she said.
Ms Kenny said it had been difficult to get information from the Spanish police and she hoped the investigator could make a breakthrough.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/family-of-missing-...
Thinking of you today Amy
personal prayer vigil
This is so pretty!
Like many folks, we will have a Christmas Eve candlelighting service. We're going to light four candles, just like on Fourth Advent Sunday. We'll dedicate them to four missing kids. Amy will be one of them.
New Year Appeal for Missing Amy
A mother whose 15-year-old daughter who has been missing for a year has stepped up her campaign to find her.
Amy Fitzpatrick disappeared in Mijas, near Fuengirola on Spain's Costa Del Sol, where she was living with her mother, brother and her mother's partner.
They had moved there from Ireland three years earlier.
Amy spent New Year's Eve 2007 babysitting at a friend's house, from where she phoned her mother Audrey at midnight to wish her a happy 2008.
It is thought she later headed home on a dirt track which she used as a shortcut.
An extensive search was launched by the Guardia Civil, with more than 200 local and national police involved in the operation.
Now, a year on, fresh posters have been circulated and English speaking radio channels are putting out appeals in a bid to uncover new information.
Audrey Fitzpatrick said: "The phone call was the last I heard from her. She said happy new year, I love you and I'll see you tomorrow."
"I think about her all the time. But you can't let yourself think what might have happened because if you do the thoughts that come into your head will drive you mad.
" If you have a death in the family eventually it gets easier. But every morning I wake up it's like a death everyday and that's what you have to live through. It doesn't get easier.
Amy, described as shy shy and quiet, left Dublin for Spain in 2004 with her mother after her parents split.
Her father Chris has also made pleas on the internet for information about the missing teenager.
"She's always happy, always smiling. She's a normal teenage girl and content with everything in her life. We have stay strong and positive for her," said Mrs Fitzpatrick.
http://tinyurl.com/7946g6
Missing Amy Fitzpatrick
This must be the hardest time at Christmas for you as Amys parents. Please be comforted to know that there are people out there who are wishing her home, and that she has not been forgotten.
I am sure that wherever she is, she knows how much you love her, and as soon as she can she will come home to you.
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
HFMC's Video for Amy
On Behalf of Amy's mam we have produced the video below for Amy feel free to use.
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From Amy's facebook
At 12 we will be releasing a flock of White Doves to represent Peace & Unity. Two pink balloons will be released by Amy's Dad Christopher & Brother Dean to Mark one year since Amy's disappearance and 98 Blue & White balloons will be released by the family and friends for the protection by Our Lady for Amy and her family and all missing people
In Spain Amy’s close friend Ashley has arranged for Amy’s friends to meet at the dirt track to have a one minutes silence and to light candles for Amy at the same time as Ireland. After the one minutes silence they will play the song “Little Angel” Dedicated to Amy and all missing people. Little Angel by Donna Marie & Breeze 52 is helping Amy’s Dad & Aunt raise funds to hire a private detective to keep the search for Amy going. Little Angel can be downloaded To download "Little Angel" from Ireland text 'music 1546' to 57501 text cost 99 cent.
In England Ashley has also organized with Amy’s friends that have moved back to England and who are back in England for holidays over Christmas to also have a one minutes silence for Amy at the same time as Ireland and Spain.
Two possible suspects in missing Amy case
THE parents of missing Amy Fitzpatrick have asked police to investigate two possible suspects.
The pair - a man and a woman - both in their 40s from England were close to the 15-year-old who disappeared on New Year’s Day.
The man mysteriously left the Costa del Sol not long after the disappearance.
“He is not currently in England or Spain, but I have a pretty good idea where he is,” David Mahon told the Olive Press.
As the teenager’s sudden disappearance approaches a year, Amy’s stepfather revealed that te gave detectives information on the pair at a high level meeting last week.
After the meeting in Malaga, he said: “We originally had 12 people we were looking at, but we have now whittled it down to two.
“Both of them were close to Amy and both are English.”
He continued: “We have given police the information and we want them to check it out.
“These people are both suspicious, although one or both of them could be innocent.”
Both Mahon and his partner Audrey Fitzpatrick attended the high level meeting with Peter Gunning, the Irish ambassador in Spain.
Police have agreed to hold monthly meetings with the family and give progress reports.
Meanwhile a fundraising event at Pog’s Irish bar in Fuengirola raised 3000 euros for a fighting fund.
Denise Carroll, from Halpenny Bridge Bar in Benalmadena, who helped to organise the fundraiser, said: “It was a great night and thanks to all the 200 people who turned up. We’ll do all we can to help find Amy in the future.”
http://www.theolivepress.es/2008/11/29/amy-suspects-sought/
Suitcase body found in Spain is not Amy
Monday November 17 2008
A BODY found in the south of Spain is not that of missing Irish teenager Amy Fitzpatrick, (right) it was confirmed last night.
Spanish police found the body, which was in a suitcase, in La Cala, close to where she was last seen in January this year.
Her father Christopher Fitzpatrick and aunt Christine Kenny contacted the Spanish police and the Department of Foreign Affairs, fearing that it may have been Amy.
"The body was sent to Malaga for forensic tests to determine its exact age and sex and according to the Spanish news the bones are of a large framed adult," said Mr Fitzpatrick.
"It has been confirmed it is not Amy. We are hoping the find of the body will bring on a fresh search for Amy," he added.
"Please God something will come up before Christmas so we can get on with our lives with Amy here with us," said Ms Kenny, adding "We would say to people who are going over to Spain for Christmas and New Year's to remember Amy."
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/suitcase-body-found--in-spain-isnt-our-amy-1541968.html
"somebody's lost princess"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwLrvfJVPsk
This song was written and produced by two girls aged 15 and 16 to help in the search for Amy
Fitzpatricks meet with the authorities
The aim of the meeting was to get an update on everything again and to give Audrey and Dave the opportunity to ask questions related to the case. The family’s Spanish solicitor, Iñigo Ebuzkiza Mutiloa also attended. Audrey Fitzpatrick told The Euro Weekly News, “We went over every single detail of Amy’s case again. We spent three hours speaking with them and they told us everything they’ve done and are still doing. The next step now is a meeting being set up in Malaga with the leading investigators, every month until Amy’s found. Even if they have nothing to tell us, they still want to meet up to reassure us. As far as we are concerned, it was a great meeting. They went through everything and we were able to sit down with the top investigators and voice our concerns and opinions, which they answered totally.”
Audrey was grateful for the continued efforts of all concerned in helping her find her daughter,
The 16-year-old Irish girl has been missing since she failed to return to her Mijas-Costa home in January, 2008.
Audrey adds, “All I can add to this is our gratitude to the Guardia Civil and the press who still are helping us try to find our baby girl, like we are. Please keep looking for her.”
Please send any information to email: missingamy@live.co.uk
http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/12522.html
Thinking of You and Your Family
In My Thoughts
I'm pleased you are getting the help and support you need in your search for Amy
You and Amy are in my thoughts