Police may still dig21 up Amy ‘burial site’
Family tipped off the missing teen is at a stable in Costa track
SPANISH cops haven’t ruled out digging at a site where the family of missing teen Amy Fitzpatrick
think she is buried.
The Guardia Civil said they need more information for a judge to grant permission for a search.
The 15-year-old’s heartbroken family received a tip-off from an anonymous woman and a letter claiming her body was at a disused racecourse.
The letter said Amy was buried in the fifth stable in the fifth block of the old Hippodrome racecourse outside Fuengirola – only 10 minutes from where she was last seen alive on
New Year’s Day 2008. Yesterday police on the Costa del Sol confirmed they never carried out a search at the unoccupied track, popular with tourists until it closed a few years ago.
A spokesman denied Amy’s case was closed but said it had been put on hold.
They are under increasing pressure from the family, the Irish Government and expat residents to upgrade the case from a missing person to a full-scale murder probe.
The police said: “We haven’t investigated the racetrack. We need to receive more information that will give us a valid clue so we can carry on looking for Amy.
“We will then present it to the court and a judge can make a decision about how we proceed based on what we give to them. At the moment we don’t have sufficient information to decide one way or the other.”
Criminal investigations in Spain are different than in Ireland and are court led.
Amy’s aunt Christine Kenny has been highly critical of the handling of the case. She wants the dig carried out as quickly as possible and revealed last weekend the family is planning public protests outside the Spanish embassy in Dublin.
She said: “Amy was only a child and all we ask is to get justice for her. We want to find her body, bring her home and bury her.
“The sooner they do it the better. Amy’s dad Christopher is now 15 years waiting to find out what happened to his little girl. He deserves better.”
Amy was only a child and all we ask is to get justice CHRISTINE KENNY AMY’S AUNT YESTERDAY