Amy Fitzpatrick Missing Since 24 December 2007 ~ New tragedy for family of missing Amy

THE heartbroken dad of missing Irish teenager Amy Fitzpatrick has vowed to never give up on her.

The 16-year-old disappeared as she walked home from a friend's home late on New Year's Day last year.

There has been no trace of her since.

Amy and her brother Dean had been living with their mother Audrey on the Costa del Sol when she vanished.

Her father, Christopher Fitzpatrick made an emotional appeal after attending a special Mass yesterday to remember Amy a year after she disappeared in southern Spain.

Dean also attended the service in Donaghmede, Dublin.

Christopher Fitzpatrick in a public appeal said: "Not a day has gone by since then that her family and friends have not suffered to know where Amy is.



"I know, from the many letters of support and calls I have received, that the pain of her disappearance is shared by many of you -- family, friends and even people who did not know Amy but for whom the story has touched a nerve. Thank you all for your support to date but this is an appeal for more.

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"We know that there are people who have information which would help bring Amy back. This is a special appeal to those who, for whatever reason, have chosen to remain silent or who have not been able to share information up to now. Please, please -- do the right thing and share what you know."

Mr Fitzpatrick said he has retained the services of private investigator Liam Brady to assist in reviewing the details of Amy's case.

In Ireland, information could be given to the gardai, while in Spain the guardia civil can be contacted on +34 636079619.

"If you cannot contact the relevant authorities or the family -- then perhaps you can contact Liam or provide information in private," he said.

Liam Brady can be contacted at 00353 862 566 697 or www.liamabrady.ie.

- Michael Lavery

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/a-year-on-missing-amys-dad-refuses-to-give-up-search-1589453.html

THE 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.

“If you cannot contact the relevant authorities or the family then perhaps you can contact Liam or provide information in private.”
Mr Fitzpatrick said information can be submitted on Amy’s section of the investigator’s website at www.liamabrady.ie
It is also possible for anyone with information to submit information anonymously via the online form if they do not wish their identity to be known.

“Whether you have direct knowledge of what happened or are simply a friend who might have heard or seen something around that time which may be relevant, please take the time to send details, no matter how insignificant they may appear,” he added.
“We are also appealing to third parties who may have information or people connected with the case.

“Perhaps you know specific details or have seen information, whether confirmed or otherwise, which may give a new direction to the search.

“How you have come by information which may be relevant, you can be assured of my appreciation and blessing for any details that you can share which can help bring Amy back.”



A substantial reward is being offered to any person providing information that could lead to a significant breakthrough in the case.

Mr Fitzpatrick also thanked those who have helped the campaign over the last year.
“It has been 12 months since Amy went missing in Mijas, Spain, and not a day has gone by since then that her family and friends have not suffered to know where Amy is,” he added.
“I know from the many letters of support and calls I have received that the pain of her disappearance is shared by many of you - family, friends and even people who did not know Amy but for whom the story has touched a nerve.

“Thank you all for your support to date but this is an appeal for more.”
Private investigator Liam A Brady has detailed on his website how people may be able to help the investigation.

“If you participated in or facilitated Amy's disappearance, now is the time to come forward,” he states.
“It does not matter how or why - we just want to bring Amy home so that all who love her can be at peace.

“Amy's many special friends are asked again to reflect on happenings and conversations in the days and weeks leading up to when she went missing.
“If you have been involved in the search for Amy and are in possession of information, even if this information is not generally in the public domain or is unconfirmed, we would greatly appreciate your assistance in collating a complete picture of the events leading up to and subsequent to January 1, 2008.”

http://www.dublinpeople.com/content/view/1477/57/

The extent of Audrey Fitzpatrick, the mother of the girl disappeared in Malaga
"We have distributed posters in the south and now we want to keep the whole island"

Audrey Fitzpatrick, the mother of Amy, and Ithaisa Suarez, mother of Yeremi with new posters.

The faces of Audrey Ithaisa and reflect the pain and suffering, but they show courage and strength to ensure they have given their support.

Audrey Fitzpatrick, the mother of the missing child of fifteen years in Malaga a year ago, came eleven days ago in Gran Canaria with the intention of supporting Ithaisa Suarez, mother of the child disappeared Neighborhood.

Despite no longer wanted to communicate as they do not share language, the two have been well understood at the time of "fighting to drive the search for two children and Sara Morales, disappeared on Gran Canaria for two and a half years."

Not only have they taken to the streets themselves to distribute thousands of posters with his face and details of missing children, but plan to hold a rally in Vecindario still no date for requesting the support of the population.

Since the Irish settled in Málaga for five years to reach Gran Canaria, Ithaisa has regained a courage that she thought she had lost.

With renewed energy and with greater force than ever is willing to fight for my child does not remain forgotten. I know that time is against us, so I think it's time to put everything on my part, "said striking Suárez Ithaisa while watching a picture of her son and takes care of Yeremi Aidan, his other son in two years.

To see a mother who is going through the same thing and I moved to Gran Canaria for everything done by his daughter has given me strength to continue the search for Yeremi," he adds.

Therefore, this week will Ithaisa and Audrey into the streets to distribute hundreds of posters with his face and details of the three missing children in Spain.

"We have already distributed by the South and will continue throughout the island, intent, which arises from Audrey, who is familiar with all the faces of our children and can give us any information," added the mother of Yeremi.

The new poster has printed pictures of Amy, for 15 years disappeared on January 1, 2008 in Mijas (Malaga), and whose research has not defined a line of what could be the lowest.

The photo of Sara Morales, now 17 years, disappeared in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on July 30, 2006, and the image of Yeremi Vargas disappeared in Los Llanos (Neighborhood) on March 10, 2006.

Audrey says that travel to various countries to distribute posters, Ithaisa and I'll go ahead with the search and see the light. "

http://dontletthemhurtourchildren.blogspot.com/2009/01/audrey-fitzpatrick-mother-of-amy-and.html

The disappearance of Marta Castillo has now returned to the other disappearances that with the passage of time seems to have remained in oblivion. Yeremi Vargas, Amy Fitzpatrick and Sara Morales are just some of the missing children in recent years and whose cases are unresolved. Relatives of Yeremi, Amy and Sara are now united in a campaign that nobody wants to forget their children and keep searching.



"We are there, do not lose hope and I will always keep," says the mother of Yeremi Vargas, who disappeared on March 10, 2007. Relatives poured missing at lunch time and began their search. . Have yet to his whereabouts.

The youngest of seven years was in a solar neighborhood, in the municipality of Santa Lucia, Gran Canaria, just a few meters from his grandfather and his uncle when he disappeared. Yeremi suffer respiratory problems and that increases the distress of his family. Nevertheless, the family does not lose hope.

Almost two years without Yeremi made for eternal mother. "He feels that the time has stopped. It is a tremendous agony and I'm not aware that so much time has passed since his disappearance," says Suarez Ithaisa, mother of the child.

Irish Audrey Fitzpatrick, the mother of the girl disappeared just over a year in Mijas (Málaga), Amy, has been the driving force behind a new campaign aiming at people who do not forget the faces of the children. Amy disappeared on a January 2008 when on his way home. Investigators have not ruled out that the couple were outside of their own volition.

Sara Morales also remains missing. The girl was last seen late the night of July 30, 2006 while walking near his home in Escaleritas. Despite the citizenship that was triggered in the hours following his absence, she has not been found yet. It is one of the priority cases for the department of the National Police Homicide and Missing.

National Police sources have confirmed that in Spain there are a large number of complaints of disappearance, "but behind every case there is a crime." Much of the disappearances are solved in the following days, such as Yamiley Campos, canaria girl who escaped from a juvenile center and has appeared on Wednesday with a friend. Juvenile cases are unresolved as long as scheduled priority, as they are missing against their will and behind each lies a kidnapping, rape or murder."

http://www.telecinco.es/informativos/sociedad/noticia/58812/Las+familias+de+los+ninos+desaparecidos+Yeremi+Vargas+Sara+Morales

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!”



Rhianna fan Amy loves eating food, talking, swimming and singing; and spent many hours on her computer. “She had no reason to run away, she hadn’t used her phone or passport, she took no make up with her (which she wouldn’t leave behind), and she has not logged onto any of her internet accounts,” explains her mum who says that staying focused and drawing on her faith is helping her to get through each day. She has received a letter from Queen Elizabeth and Downing Street and has had an audience with the Irish Prime Minister three times.

Audrey and Dave, who are unable to work whilst they campaign to find their daughter, say it’s the support and prayers of everyone that helps them as each morning the nightmare realisation that she is not home is the first and constant thought throughout the day.

They have spoken highly of the tremendous support they have received from the Canarians and ex-pats and ran out of their 10,000 leaflets within two days; “a lovely Canarian Taxi driver came to the Casa Blanca hotel at 5 o’clock so that he could distribute the posters to the other drivers…the manager has been translating for us and the people on Gran Canaria have been so kind.” Steve from Rapid Print swiftly printed more posters and Dublin man Steve York, from the Harp, Puerto Rico, who has had many posters brought over from Ireland from his clients, displays them in his bar. “The parents are lovely people; they just keep going even though they are in a goldfish bowl. The put on a brave face and wont let anyone forget….it must be so difficult.”

Another Dubliner, Sinead from family run bar Molly Malone’s, explained that their resident band ‘Celtic Storm’ are printing Amy’s picture on the back of their CD’s and that Irish customers already know about Amy’s disappearance. “It is well publicised in Ireland so our clients are talking about her. It’s a most horrific situation for the parents…living grief. They are lovely people.”

Whilst police slowly search Amy Fitzpatricks’s 3000 contacts you can log onto the official www.missingamy.com website visit the BeBo, Face book or My Space pages.

Amy is 1.65m (5’4”) tall, has a small, slight frame and has piercing blue eyes. She is known to regularly change her hair colour.

No mother should have to be away from her child on their birthday; light a candle for Amy Fitzpatrick and her family on the 7th February. She will be seventeen years old.
00 34 617 561319. If you have any information on a missing person call 112.



A candlelit demonstration for Amy Fitzpatrick safe return takes place in Mijas this Sunday, to, as Mijas Town Hall said in a press release, keep alive the hope that she will be found. It comes at the instigation of a number of local residents of differing faiths, including Catholic, Evangelical and Baptist, the Town Hall said, and it’s understood that Amy’s family will be there at the demonstration. It takes place at 7pm on Sunday 3rd February on the Bulevar de La Cala in Mijas Costa.

http://www.roundtownnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17934&Itemid=9

MISSING teenager Amy Fitzpatrick's family has been hit by a second tragedy, with the death of Amy's first cousin, John Kenny, in his Finglas apartment at the age of just 24.

He was found dead in his home in Charlestown on Monday morning after suffering a suspected brain haemorrhage during the night.

His devastated mother Christine learned of his death just hours before she was to meet former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to talk about niece Amy's case.



Headaches

John had been suffering headaches for a number of weeks but never told his parents, only his flatmate.

John had a couple of drinks on Sunday night and was talking on the phone with a friend till about 3.30am.

His flatmate found him dead in his bed the next morning. John was described by his dad Billy as "one of the best of them".

Christine has been at the forefront of efforts to locate Amy (15) since she went missing in Spain last year.

The teenager has not been seen since she left her friend's house on New Year's Day to walk to her home just outside Fuengirola.

Along with other family members, Christine presented a petition of 20,000 signatures to the EU Commission office in Dublin in July last year.

The petition called for the introduction of a system that would alert all EU States when children go missing.

- Cormac Murphy
http://www.herald.ie/national-news/new-tragedy-for-family-of-missing-amy-1647431.html

WhyMadeleine wrote:
MISSING teenager Amy Fitzpatrick's family has been hit by a second tragedy, with the death of Amy's first cousin, John Kenny, in his Finglas apartment at the age of just 24.

He was found dead in his home in Charlestown on Monday morning after suffering a suspected brain haemorrhage during the night.

His devastated mother Christine learned of his death just hours before she was to meet former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to talk about niece Amy's case.



Headaches

John had been suffering headaches for a number of weeks but never told his parents, only his flatmate.

John had a couple of drinks on Sunday night and was talking on the phone with a friend till about 3.30am.

His flatmate found him dead in his bed the next morning. John was described by his dad Billy as "one of the best of them".

Christine has been at the forefront of efforts to locate Amy (15) since she went missing in Spain last year.

The teenager has not been seen since she left her friend's house on New Year's Day to walk to her home just outside Fuengirola.

Along with other family members, Christine presented a petition of 20,000 signatures to the EU Commission office in Dublin in July last year.

The petition called for the introduction of a system that would alert all EU States when children go missing.

- Cormac Murphy
http://www.herald.ie/national-news/new-tragedy-for-family-of-missing-amy-1647431.html

Twenty four years of age! How awful that is so sad to think that John’s mum Christine was probably about to leave her home to speak with Berti Ahern about Amy’s case, the poor family will be numb with shock and trying to take it all in especially the flat mate who found John. God help them all at this terribly sad time.

Monday4 the Missing ~Amy Fitzpatrick~

http://lostfacesofthemissing.blogspot.com/2009/03/monday4-missing-amy-fitzpatrick.html