FAMILY CALLS ON GOVERNMENT
THE distraught family of Amy Fitzpatrick has called on the Irish Government to press Spanish authorities into upgrading their probe into a murder investigation.
Christine Kenny, who is the Irish teen’s aunt, urged Tanaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin to intervene after claiming evidence passed to the Guardia Civil was not acted upon.
One of which was a tip-off she received which said Amy’s remains are buried in a disused Hippodrome racetrack — a 10-minute drive from where she vanished.
Christine said she received an anonymous call a few years ago claiming her niece had been murdered and her body was in the fifth stable.
Speaking to the media, before handdelivering personalised letters to politicians at Leinster House yesterday, she explained: “Amy’s case is archived so it means they’re [Spanish police] not looking on Amy’s case and haven’t been looking on it for years but it needs to be upgraded to murder.
“And this is what I’m trying to get done now. If it’s upgraded to murder, they can start doing investigations and things like that.
“But unless that happens we’re not getting any further so I’m just hoping that will happen.”
Amy’s case has been marked as “archivado” — common practice in Spain for unsolved mysteries.
This means the probe will be reopened once new information or evidence is found.
Disgrace
Christine said: “It’s a disgrace and it’s a disgrace that our Government has treated this as nothing.
“She [Amy] is an Irish citizen and needs to be found and at the end of the day she is someone’s child and that someone’s child is my brother.
“She is somewhere out there, none of us know where she is and it’s not for not searching. We have gone over on