Amy Fitzpatrick:Revealed a camera could have recorded Amy on the track she is thought to have taken on New Year's Day, the day she disappeared

Revealed a camera could have recorded Amy on the track she is thought to have taken on New Year's Day, the day she disappeared.
Amy Fitzpatrick disappeared on the evening of New Year's Day 1st January 2008 at approximately 10pm when she left her friends house in the tourist resort of Riviera Del Sol on the Costa Del Sol, Spain to take the 10 minute walk to her house.
Amy was 15 at the time of her disappearance; on 7th February Amy turned 16, Amy has black/Brown hair, blue eyes and has a pale complexion. She is 1.65m tall and was wearing brown crushed velvet tracksuit bottoms and a black T-shirt with the word "DIESEL" in various different colours when she was last seen. She had no money, phone or passport. Amy is originally from Clarehall Dublin but was living in Spain the last few years. Tuesday 26th August 2008 Amy will be 34 weeks missing. We have discovered a sighting that was reported to Christine Kenny Amy's Aunt of Amy in Portugal was never followed up that Christine reported to both the Spanish and Irish police. Christopher Fitzpatrick Amy's father needs to raise funds to hire a private detective to help with the search for Amy. To be honest not for one second did he ever think he would need to trouble anybody for help with funds but Spain is so far from Ireland and the costs to get anything done is crazy. Please note this is the first time Christopher has asked for help with funds and it will only be used to hire a private detective and any funds left over will go to the missing organisation in Ireland Miss.ie to help other families going through this situation.

Amy Fitzpatrick and the British-registered Ford Fiesta, with the number plate C955 SLK

The Civil Guard have released the registration of the vehicle they believe Amy Fitzpatrick may have taken that night. It is a British-registered Ford Fiesta, with the number plate C955 SLK. Anyone who may see the vehicle is asked not to touch it to avoid destroying evidence, and to contact 062 urgently.
The car belongs to an Irish friend of Amy’s family, 34 year old R.B.O., who used the vehicle on his trips to Spain, and told detectives when he was called in for questioning during the investigation that he had not seen it for some days. EFE reports that Amy knew the car had no key and knew how to start it.

Hilario López Luna, the government delegate for Málaga province, said earlier this week that, while all hypotheses remain open, one ‘very important line of investigation’ is that the teenager left voluntarily.

Richard Brian O’Shea My first name or full name is now on dozens of websites in stories about Amy Fitzpatrick

Guardia Civil are still looking for the white car belonging to Richard Brian O’Shea, a 34 year old family friend of the Fitzpatricks. He reported the Ford Fiesta missing shortly after Amy disappeared. Spanish press reports indicated that she knew that the vehicle was not locked and how to start it, but this has been denied by the owner. Richard Brian O’Shea told the Irish Independent that ‘The suggestion Amy used the car is ridiculous. It was locked and she’d never driven it. She’s only 15 for God’s sake’.Ritchie O'Shea broke his silence following his 24-hour detention earlier this week to claim his name was being dragged through the mud.
He was arrested on an outstanding warrant relating to a traffic offence on Wednesday and taken to court on Thursday to receive a fine and an 18-month driving ban.
Police have confirmed his arrest had nothing to do with the Irish teenager's disappearance on New Year's Day from her home on Spain's Costa del Sol.
But Ritchie, 34, said he was now a virtual prisoner in his own home and was planning to leave Spain in the next few days.

Computer expert Ritchie, who has known Amy's stepdad Dave Mahon, 36, and her mum Audrey, 39, for several years, added: "I'm confused myself as to what has happened to Amy. I knew she was missing Ireland and at the beginning I thought she had most probably run away.
"But now I fear something terrible may have happened to her. She's been gone a long time and I would have expected her to make contact with a friend before now.
"But I'm happy to repeat myself until I'm blue in the face. I have nothing to do with her disappearance."
Police are searching for a missing Ford Fiesta Ritchie used that was parked outside his former home and disappeared at the start of the year.
Spanish newspapers have reported that detectives are probing the possibility that Amy had access to the car and may have used it to leave the Costa del Sol.
But Ritchie said: "The suggestion Amy used the car is ridiculous. It was locked and she'd never driven it. She's only 15 for God's sake."

Amy Fitzpatricks Father joins search

Todays extended search around the area of Riviera del Sol and the Sierra de Mijas for Irish teenager Amy Fitzpatrick has ended for the day with no new leads as to her disappearence. The search has been joined from Ireland by her father.

Amy Fitzpatrick repeated attempts to kidnap young girls in Riviera del Sol

Amy had said on repeated occasions that when walking home to the Riviera del Sol Urbanisation someone had repeatedly asked her to get into a car, La Opinion de Málaga reports that there had been a attempted kidnap in the same urbanisation as Amy’s carried out six months ago. A man was seen driving a white van, and reportedly tried to pick up an eight year old girl at the entrance to the urbanisation, but the child’s shouts scared him off. The news was given to the newspaper by the ex President of the residents community, and has been confirmed by the investigators, although no official denuncia was placed at the time.

Mrs Audrey Fitzpatrick, from Dublin, said that she was starting to fear the worst

Spanish Civil Guard searched waste ground yesterday in the tourist resort of Riviera del Sol, near Fuengirola, as part of their hunt for the Irish teenager. The land is close to the route that Amy would have taken on her ten-minute walk back to the home she shares with her mother, brother and stepfather.
She spent New Year’s Eve at her friend’s house, babysitting for the girl’s younger brother, and stayed the night before the pair headed to a local shopping centre on January 1. Amy then returned to the friend’s house before heading home at about 10pm.
Her mother, Audrey, 39, said last night that she had not heard anything from her daughter since a telephone call early on the day she vanished.
“The last time we spoke was on New Year’s Day morning when she rang to wish me happy new year.”
Mrs Fitzpatrick, from Dublin, said that she was starting to fear the worst.

Amy Fitzpatrick

Amy Fitzpatrick, 15, has not been seen since the evening of New Year’s Day, when she left the friend’s home on the Costa del Sol.
Officers from the Spanish Civil Guard searched waste ground yesterday in the tourist resort of Riviera del Sol, near Fuengirola, as part of their hunt for the Irish teenager. The land is close to the route that Amy would have taken on her ten-minute walk back to the home she shares with her mother, brother and stepfather.
She spent New Year’s Eve at her friend’s house, babysitting for the girl’s younger brother, and stayed the night before the pair headed to a local shopping centre on January 1. Amy then returned to the friend’s house before heading home at about 10pm.
Her mother, Audrey, 39, said last night that she had not heard anything from her daughter since a telephone call early on the day she vanished.