The uncle of a missing teenager who vanished from her home in the Costa del Sol on New Year’s Day has asked me to highlight her case.
The stepfather of 15-year-old Amy Fitzpatrick is offering a “substantial” reward for information about her disappearance.
Four months on, there is still no news about what happened to Amy, who is from Dublin, despite extensive searches using a police team of 200.
Detectives are continuing the hunt for Amy, who vanished from Mijas Costa. She was last seen at 10pm as she left a friend’s home in the tourist resort of Riviera del Sol, saying she was going to walk home. She had no money and wasn’t carrying her mobile telephone.
Police have appealed for information about a white Ford Fiesta with a UK number plate owned by a family friend, which went missing at the same time as Amy.
A government spokesman in the region said it was difficult to believe the youngster left voluntarily.
Police are now looking for a second car connected to the case, although no description has yet been released.
In memory of those who are still missing.
how very worrying – I can only imagine what it must be like to be her parents. And shudder.
Another sad and worrying case, Ellee – let’s hope this post prompts someone’s memory.
I hope so too, it is a totally baffling case and the family are out of their minds with worry.
[…] Ellee Seymour of ProActive PR passes on an appeal for information concerning the disappearance of 15-year-old Amy Fitzpatrick (no disrespect is intended by the inclusion under this heading – such a heartrending trauma simply cannot be subsumed under the other categories). […]
Hello, I have been trying to get in touch with the parents of Amy Fitzpatrick for hours on my computer without success. What I want to find out is whether or not Amy speaks any other language apart from English, because shortly after she disappeared I saw a young woman who looked very like her, in a busy street here in Dublin, but she was speaking either Spanish or Italian. She and her young male friend disappeared into the crowd and later I regretted not stopping them as the resemblance was remarkable. What put me off was the fact that they were having a very animated conversation but not english and for some reason I had assumed that she didn’t speak any other language but English due to her being in Spain not very long. Now I realize that that may not be the case and she may have a good knowledge of Spanish. I would like to know one way or the other. I have left messages with the RTE news-desk and with the Irish police so far without any reply. I will keep trying. If you might be able to help out I would appreciate it. Peter Martin email me Petemart2003@yahoo.co.uk. I live in Ireland and my ph is 0874162704. the prefix is 00353, but its easier to get me by email. Thanks.
Hi Peter Martin,
There is one fault with your line of inquire, how did Amy gain access to Ireland without showing a passport? I know in resent years the boarders between countries have become open, but Ireland is a Island, how would Amy enter without showing some type of identification?
I am sorry to say that based on a statistical analyses of the case, it is unlikely that Amy left Spain of her own free will. In fact I would guess there is only a 50/50 chance she left the general area. Unfortunately there is a good chance she is no longer with us.
Peter
Hi Martin,
Thank you for keeping your eyes open.
If ever Amy is to be found it most likely will be by somebody like you.
The best (quick) way to contact Amy’s family is via this website
http://www.helpfinda.bebo.com
We can only hope Peter is very wrong and his prediction is based on hunch other than anything else.
At times like this its easy to think the worse its how we all act but as they have found nothing yet we all still have hope.
Sending out messages of no hope will do nothing to help anybody.
Amy speaks spanish and english.
I think if she made it to Dublin Ireland she would have made contact with her dad.
No matter what you hear thats the place she wanted to be… with her dad
MISSING AMY FITZPATRICK
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.
She turned 16 on the 7th February 2008.Amy is originally from Clare Hall on Dublin’s North side and she moved to The Costa del sol with us four years ago
Her computer and phone have been checked thoroughly and nothing was found to suggest she has left voluntarily with someone. Amy has numerous sites on social networking sites, e.g. bebo, my space, face book and MSN and none of them have been touched since she went missing.
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.
We are still no closer to finding Amy and we urge anyone who can help us to find her to contact the relevant number s below.
Amy’s Mam: 0034 617 561 319
Or missingamy@live.co.uk
SPANISH POLICE 0034 952 479 030
To speak to the police in English 0034 636 079 619
Amy’s official website is http://www.missingamy.com
Amy’s official bebo page is http://www.bebo.com/helpustofindamy
To download Amy’s poster and display it please click on these links
https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=60f61eba-7f29-4801-a1f9-d44abbccf84c
https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=81233ba8-60f3-4166-878f-ae1c25c980c8
Thank you for that last comment. It must be so heartbreaking. I can’t imagine the constant worry you must be living through, just not knowing how Amy vanished. I’m so very sorry, and I do wish you well in your search.
TEARFUL AUDREY: MAYOR WON’T HELP US FIND AMY
LOST TEENS MUM ROCKED BY SPANISH SNUB
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…â€
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
If anyone has any information that will help Audrey and Dave find Amy please contact 0034 617 561 319 or email missingamy@live.co.uk
I am sorry to read that teenagers who vanish from her home. It is a social problem that should be solved.
Over a eleven and a Hf years on, I still search for my baby.
I’m so sorry I haven’t stayed online every second of every day but I’m so tired but I miss her so so much.
I ache every day for her smile, her smell.
I don’t know if this site is gone but I just had to talk about her
Hello Audrey, the site is still active and I’m so sorry to hear that there has been no progress. Have you been in touch with your MP? Can you ask police to hold a cold case review? I feel deeply for you x