An aunt of missing Irish teenager Amy Fitzpatrick thinks she now knows where exactly she is buried.
15-year-old Amy Fitzpatrick went missing from the Mijas Costa area of Spain on New Year’s Day 2008. Now the teenager's aunt Christine Kenny has received an anonymous letter informing her that the remains of her niece were interred in the fifth stable, in the fifth block beside the water tank at the old Fuengirola racetrack.
The disused facility lies ten minutes drive from where the then 15-year-old child disappeared as she walked home on the Costa Del Sol on New Year’s Day 2008. In 2021, the family received similar information about the racetrack via phone from what was described as an 'underworld figure.'
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However, the family say the latest contact relates to a different stable and is more specific in nature. No dig has ever taken place at the former racetrack and Spanish police were unavailable for comment last night.
The anguished aunt, whose brother Christopher is Amy’s father, last night demanded the Spanish Civil Guard force immediately upgrade the investigation from a missing person’s case to a full scale murder investigation. She said: “We had a tip off before that her body was buried in the racetrack stables.
"But now we have received a letter telling us exactly where her remains were dumped. The family would urge the Spanish authorities to take this information seriously and to do a dig for Amy’s body at stable five in block five at the track.
“She has been missing for 15 years and nothing is happening in terms of trying to find her. We believe something terrible happened to Amy and she was killed on the night she disappeared.
“We don’t believe for one second that she left home voluntarily. We have no doubt Amy was murdered and with this new information the whole case should be upgraded to a murder enquiry..
“I would appeal to the Spanish police to conduct a dig for Amy at the racetrack stables and see if they can find her body. Surely there is nothing to lose at this stage.
“All we want is justice for Amy and to find her body and bring her home and bury her. Her father is devastated and he is also demanding that a dig for Amy now takes place.”
Mr Fitzpatrick has now lost his two children, Amy who is missing and Dean who was killed by his step father Dave Mahon after a row in 2013. Amy’s mother Audrey is married to Mahon. He served five years behind bars for manslaughter.
Christine Keegan added: “Nothing has happened with this investigation for years. The file is just sitting there in a police station.
“We would urge the Irish Government and the Gardai to intervene and persuade the Spanish Guardia de Civil who are in charge of the case to begin a dig and see if the body is at the racetrack. If it is not there so be it but at least we can say we acted in good faith on the anonymous information we were given.
“The Spanish police can not sit back anymore and do nothing.”
The Spanish police now accept that Amy did not disappear voluntarily. They have resisted attempts to upgrade the case to a murder probe.
The last person to see Amy alive, her best friend Ashley Rose has also demanded that the Spanish police take immediate action. She is also furious that despite a number of people passing new information in relation to the case and Amy’s, the police have so far sat on their hands and did nothing.
Ashley said; “The police haven’t done anything for years. If Amy had been Spanish or if she had gone missing in Ireland, they would all have done more.
“It’s not right that we are not all still looking for her. She was a 15 year old girl, and she was my best friend. I will never forget her.”
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