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THE FAMILY OF missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick have backed a campaign which is calling on the government to fund a new forensic photograph which would show what the missing teenager would look like today.
Amy went missing from her home in Riviera Del Sol, Mijas Costa, near the resort of Fuengirola in January 2008. She was walking from her friend’s home to her own at around 10.10pm, but has not been seen since.
She had been living with her mother Audrey and her mother’s partner Dave Mahon at the time. Mahon is currently serving a seven year sentence for the manslaughter of Dean Fitzpatrick, who Mahon stabbed to death in May 2013.
The new campaign, which has the backing of Amy’s mother Audrey, is seeking to have a new forensic photograph created which would show what Amy might look like at 26 years of age.
The campaign’s creator, Nigel Graham, said that there are many questions to be answered regarding Amy’s disappearance.
He said: “What Amy needs more than anything is a new forensic artist’s impression of how she would look now at 26 and this should be funded by the Irish government. This would help Amy a lot.”
Graham set up a Facebook page about Amy’s disappearance with the permission of her mother, and said that within seven weeks the page had received a large number of views.
“Telling her story reminds the public that she needs to be found. She was only 15 at time and now she would be 26. The family should have a forensic artist impression made by the gardaí and I think the Irish government should help the family.”
Amy’s aunt Christine Kenny has previously spoken to TheJournal.ie in relation to her niece’s disappearance.
While the family has been split over the tragedy, Kenny has always called for a cold case review of Amy’s disappearance.
She said: “I’m not going to get into the specifics but there were too many coincidences, things that just didn’t fit. I truly believe this wasn’t a flash-in-the-pan incident. I don’t think it was planned or anything but these things don’t just happen out of nothing.”
“You know when you just have that ‘that’s not right’ kind of feeling. I want a set of fresh eyes to have a look at this case. That’s what is needed.”
Both sides of the Fitzpatrick family have called on the Spanish police to open a cold case investigation in a bid to solve the disappearance. However, they have been told that every avenue has been exhausted and there is nothing more they can do.
Kenny said that there is someone out there who knows what happened to Amy and that they have the information needed to reopen the case.
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1. Nobody knows what she’d look like at 26.
2. The government shouldn’t fund this.
3. The person most likely guilty of her abduction & probable murder is already in Jail.
@Sequoia: if she wished to be found and had the capacity to do so, one expects she would have contacted her mother (perhaps secretly) at this point. For her not to do so does rather lead to a grim conclusion. I doubt an updated photograph would help here.
@Sequoia: 4. You would be saying none of these things if she was your daughter.
5. Your attitude is a source of pain for her family.
6. Wise up
@Sequoia: yes.. and we all have the same opinion and the murder is in jail
Not sure why, but at the time of reading, it doesn’t make clear, for those that don’t know, that the late Dean Fitzpatrick is Amy’s brother.
Why would the Irish government pay for this project?
@Tom Gavin: because irish citizen??
11 years jaysus doesn’t feel that long ago….
Closed case
If this woman supports photos, then she should pay for them. Please don’t waste tax payer money on such a circus!
I don’t quite know what this Graham guy has to do with this case.. but,, a ‘forensic’ aged photo is really not difficult if have better photos than have been released for this person.
Wish them the best, not knowing the fate of a loved one must be extremely difficult,
No offence but these aged photos don’t serve any purpose. 9 times out of 10 they look nothing like the missing person aged or otherwise. If anything they’re highly misleading.
@Maggie Barcoe:
a proper forensic, is somewhat different to a noob with photoshop
The family whose house she left said she had her phone with her but it was later found when the police searched her bedroom. Does anyone know if there’s any truth in this?
No matter what any of you think this is such a devastating tragedy that most sane people would not wish on there’d worst enemy. Can you ever imagine the mother’s pain. Rest in peace Amy and Dean and peace also to Audrey. .
@casey: the pain of losing two children is all I’m talking about. if you have children you have to imagine how that feels. I’m not talking about the personal side of things. We all know nothing about that particular relationship.
So far it’s been a perfect murder. No body.no evidence. Getting assistance from another state without evidence or body will be a mountainous hurdle
Unfortunately, she is gone: so so sad
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