AMY FAMILY’S NEW TROLL TERROR
Sick harasser targets relatives as they face 11th anniversary of missing teen
MISSING Amy Fitzpatrick’s family is being traumatised by a sick troll claiming she is alive in the US.
The online harasser had stopped after being reported but began contact again last month. Amy’s aunt Christine said: “He seems to be obsessed.”
Tomorrow is the 11th anniversary of the teen’s disappearance in Spain.
MISSING teen Amy Fitzpatrick’s family have revealed how a twisted troll is once again adding to their torment.
The 15-year-old vanished without a trace as she walked home from a pal’s house on Spain’s Costa del Sol on New Year’s Day in 2008.
Over the past three years the Dubliner’s devastated dad Christopher and aunt Christine Kenny have received hundreds of emails from a man claiming Amy is living in the US.
The online harassment stopped for a short while after they reported it to the police but it started up again earlier this month.
Christine said they won’t block the troll for fear of missing out on any information that might lead to finding Amy but the situation is now getting unbearable.
She told the Irish Mirror: “This has been going on since 2015. He just seems to be obsessed with Amy.
“He lives in America and keeps claiming Amy was here, Amy was there, saying he’s spotted her all over the place.
“It stopped for a day or two when we reported it but now he’s back again. We just hope eventually he’ll realise the upset he’s causing our family.”
Christopher has pleaded for police to re-examine his daughter’s case and provided a sample of his DNA to the national database in the hope it might help trace her.
His 23-year-old son Dean was killed by his ex-wife Audrey’s partner Dave Mahon in 2013.
The killer claimed Amy’s only sibling had run into his knife during a heated argument in an “attempted suicide” but he was convicted of manslaughter and jailed.
The family met new Garda Commissioner Drew Harris at a ceremony on National Missing Persons’ Day earlier this month and say they are encouraged by his approach.
Christine said she had “fresh hope” he can work with Spanish authorities to help move the case forward.
She added: “Amy’s anniversary is coming up again. I’ve been asking for information for 11 years.
“There must be people out there who know something about what happened to her but they’re not coming forward it’s just a blank. “It’s closure we want, whether she’s dead or alive. If she has passed we just want to give her a proper Christian burial.” Amy was living with her mother Audrey and Mahon in Riviera del Sol in Mijas Costa, near Fuengirola, when she vanished.
She was last seen leaving a friend’s house at 10pm on New Year’s Day but was not reported missing until January 3.
The blue-eyed teen had been due to fly home to Ireland on St Stephen’s Day 2007 but the trip was cancelled.
Christine said: “She would have been coming home to see her dad but it wasn’t to be. She used to be on the phone to her father giggling and chatting away.
“He’d say, ‘I think you just ring me to listen to my voice’ and she’d just laugh. She was a lovely little kid.
“Even as a tiny child she had a beautiful smile and a sparkle in her eyes. She didn’t deserve this.”
Christine is pleading for anyone with information to contact the Garda confidential line on 1800 666 111 or visit www.searchforamy.com.
There must be people out there who know something CHRISTINE KENNY YESTERDAY
She was a lovely kid, even as a child she’d a beautiful smile CHRISTINE KENNY YESTERDAY