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Search for Irish teenager in Spain
Police in Spain are investigating the disappearance of an Irish teenager who went missing on the Costa del Sol on New Year's Day.

Amy Fitzpatrick, 15, has not been seen since she left a friend's house to walk home at around 10pm on 1 January.

The teenager is originally from Dublin but moved to Calahonda with her mother, brother and step-father in 2004.

Calahonda is located between Marbella and Fuengirola in Spain.

It is understood that Ms Fitzpatrick does not have her mobile phone or passport with her.


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Father of girl missing in Spain makes appeal
The father of an Irish teenager missing in Spain has made an appeal for information in relation to his daughter's disappearance.

Amy Fitzpatrick, 15, went missing on New Year's Day near her home in Fuengirola on the Costa Del Sol where she lives with her mother, brother and stepfather.

She lived in Donaghmede before she moved to Spain three years ago
Today her father Christopher issued a statement from his home in Dublin, which was read by Amy's aunt Christine Kenny.

The family have appealed for anyone who may be holding Amy to let her go and have asked her to get to a phone and contact the gardaí or the Spanish police.

They say they just want her back safe and well, that they have been devastated by her disappearance and that any information would be greatly appreciated.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has been in contact with Amy Fitzpatrick's family and has offered all possible consular assistance
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Leggings found in Spanish search examined
Police in Spain searching for missing Dublin teenager Amy Fitzpatrick have found a pair of leggings in a ravine about 100 metres from the dirt track where she was last seen.

The black leggings have been taken away for examination.

The teenager was wearing a pair of black tracksuit bottoms when she went missing nine days ago, near her home in Fuengirola on the Costa Del Sol.

Police today stepped up their search which involves two helicopters, sniffer dogs, mapping experts from Madrid and a large team of police officers.

Her mother Audrey arrived at the scene of the search this morning and has issued an appeal for information.

Miss Fitzpatrick disappeared while she was walking home from a friend's house on New Year's Day.

Investigating police from the Guardia Civil are co-ordinating the search and are extending it to an area 12km in radius.

No civilians are being allowed to take part in the search. Volunteers had been asked to gather at the Calla Mijes football pitch, which is beside the school that Amy previously attended.


The Department of Foreign Affairs has also offered consular assistance but that offer does not appear to have been taken up and no Irish official is present in Fuengirola.

Interpol has not been alerted and the gardaí also say that they have not received a request from the Spanish police for assistance and their liaison officer based in Madrid has not been asked to travel to the Costa del Sol.


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Fitzpatrick family to meet Irish Prime Minister two months after teenage Amy disappeared in Mijas

The meeting with Bertie Ahern is this Wednesday
It’s now more than two months since Amy Fitzpatrick disappeared from Mijas as she was walking from the Calypso area to her home on the Riviera del Sol Urbanisation, and not a trace of the Irish teenager has been found since then. She was returning home from a friend’s house when she disappeared on the night of New Year’s Day.

It was Amy’s sixteenth birthday on 7th February. The Civil Guard continue with their search for a British-registered white Ford Fiesta which they believe she may have taken, registration C955 SLK, and her family, who have been handing out leaflets as far away as Alicante and Morocco, have been organising fund-raising events to help them carry on with their campaign to bring her home safe and sound. The latest was in Dublin on Saturday night.

EFE said Amy’s mother, Audrey Fitzpatrick, and her partner, Dave Mahon, are in Ireland themselves this week for a meeting with the Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, on Wednesday.

Last month, Amy’s family announced a substantial reward for any information which could lead to the whereabouts of the missing girl, and said all information would be treated in the strictest confidence. They asked anyone who may have a possible lead to contact either the family or the Civil Guard.

The contact numbers are 112, 952 487 036, 062, 686 044 181 and 952 474 030. Amy has black hair is 1.65m tall, and was wearing black track suit bottoms and a T-shirt with the word ‘Diesel’ when she was last seen.

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Six months since the disappearance of Amy Fitzpatrick

Her mother Audrey said she was optimistic of finding her daughter alive.
Audrey Fitzpatrick, the mother of the 15 year old Irish girl who vanished from Mijas Costa on January 1 this year, said on Tuesday this week that she was optimistic of finding her daughter alive.

Speaking to the EFE news agency she said that at first the family and the police thought that she had run away, given that she was a teenager living in a place that she did not like, but now that possibility has passed.

Speaking on the six month anniversary of her daughter’s disappearance, Audrey made a fresh call to the media and the authorities to not forget the case and to keep posters and photos on display so that people visiting on holiday could see them.
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Amy Fitzpatrick website


http://www.searchforamy.com/