AMY IS ONE YEAR MISSING TODAY.
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A mother whose 15-year-old daughter who has been missing for a year has stepped up her campaign to find her.



Amy Fitzpatrick disappeared in Mijas, near Fuengirola on Spain's Costa Del Sol, where she was living with her mother, brother and her mother's partner.

They had moved there from Ireland three years earlier.

Amy spent New Year's Eve 2007 babysitting at a friend's house, from where she phoned her mother Audrey at midnight to wish her a happy 2008.

It is thought she later headed home on a dirt track which she used as a shortcut.

An extensive search was launched by the Guardia Civil, with more than 200 local and national police involved in the operation.

Now, a year on, fresh posters have been circulated and English speaking radio channels are putting out appeals in a bid to uncover new information.



Amy vanished last New Year's Day

Audrey Fitzpatrick said: "The phone call was the last I heard from her. She said happy new year, I love you and I'll see you tomorrow."

"I think about her all the time. But you can't let yourself think what might have happened because if you do the thoughts that come into your head will drive you mad.

" If you have a death in the family eventually it gets easier. But every morning I wake up it's like a death everyday and that's what you have to live through. It doesn't get easier.

Amy, described as shy shy and quiet, left Dublin for Spain in 2004 with her mother after her parents split.

Her father Chris has also made pleas on the internet for information about the missing teenager.

"She's always happy, always smiling. She's a normal teenage girl and content with everything in her life. We have stay strong and positive for her," said Mrs Fitzpatrick.

Dear Amy. It's hard to believe a year has passed and there still been no news from you.
I cannot describe how much I am missing you. I find it very hard to speak about you but I am always thinking of you.
I wish last New Year's night I got home before 3am or 4am in the morning, maybe I would of bumped into you on the way home or heard something that might have you here with us today.

Its going to be so hard this Christmas not knowing where you are or what has happened to you. If there is one thing I could have this Christmas, it would be to have you back. We all miss you so much.

If anyone has seen, heard or knows anything about Amy's disappearance please put an end to this nightmare and pass the information on to help me get my little sister home. Dean

This is our 1st Christmas without our Daughter and we are appealing to anyone who can help us to find amy to get in touch with us, At 12 midnight Irish time on Christmas Eve we will release a video of her to let people know of the heartache we are going through at this time.

You can see this video at http://www.bebo.com/helpustofindamy . Or http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IPAE_V...

Amy was 15 at the time of her disappearance; she has black hair, 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.


Anyone with information on what happened to Amy or her whereabouts is urged to immediately contact

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