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THE aunt of Amy Fitzpatrick yesterday revealed how the missing teenager’s father is “completely broken” as they marked her 31st birthday.
Despite another difficult milestone for the family, Amy’s aunt Christine Kenny met with officials at the Spanish Embassy in Ballsbridge, South Dublin.
Following the meeting, she said she will now write to the Irish embassy in Madrid in a bid to make progress in the case.
Christine told the Irish Mirror: “It’s about a young girl who is 31 today who should be here with her family.
“There’s no justice for it and no answers. We need to progress this case.”
Asked how her brother and Amy’s dad Christopher is doing, she said: “He’s completely broken. He’s just totally heartbroken.”
Amy was aged 15 when she vanished from the Mihas area on the Costa del Sol in Spain on New Year’s Day in 2008. Distraught dad Christopher wants to bring Amy home and lay her to rest next to her brother Dean who was killed in 2013.
Brave Christine yesterday told how she, Christopher and the family feel ignored despite passing on information, none of which has, to their knowledge, been followed up upon.
That includes a detailed letter claiming Amy is buried in the fifth stable in the fifth block of the old Hippodrome racecourse outside Fuengirola – 10 minutes from where she was last seen alive.
Christine told us: “When I get information, I’d normally send it to the guards who would send it to Interpol.
“With regard to any information I have given, nothing has ever been followed up on. Just silence from them.
“The information on the racecourse, it has never been checked out and no searches or digs have ever taken place there.”
Two weeks ago, Christine handed letters addressed to a number of politicians at Leinster House seeking for intervention in the case and for it to be upgraded to murder. No Government TD came out from the building to meet Christine but Sinn Fein’s leader Mary Lou Mcdonald and justice spokesperson Martin Kenny did.
Tanaiste Micheal Martin later committed to meeting them after being asked in the Dail by Social Democrats TD Cian O’callaghan.
In his response, Mr Martin said consular officials have been in touch with the Fitzpatrick family regularly.
However, Christine says this has never been the case and wanted to clarify that point. She added: “To date, 15 years on, no contact, no feedback has been passed onto Christopher or any family member. For Christopher, it’s like he’s never existed. Yet he is Amy’s biological father. And it’s terrible that he is never brought
It’s about a girl who is 31 today who should be here with her family CHRISTINE KENNY BALLSBRIDGE YESTERDAY
into a situation. He was never informed of Amy’s disappearance. He never knew anything about it.
“It was just that it was seen on a Bebo page that Amy was missing that we became aware of it.”
She added: “It is up to our Government to do things for families who have loved ones missing. “But I don’t think they care because if they cared they’d be doing something about Amy.
“A number of governments have done nothing since Amy disappeared.”
Amy was last seen when she left her pal Ashley Rose’s home at 10pm where she was helping babysit in Riviera del Sol, near Mijas.
From there she was to return to her own villa – a 10-minute walk away. Amy was living with her mum Audrey, her stepdad Dave Mahon and brother Dean.
Dean was stabbed to death on May 25, 2013 by Mahon who served five years in jail for manslaughter.