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Amy

She went missing 17 months ago from Mijas and we need your help to find her
BY ALFREDO BLOY
WHEN Audrey Fitzpatrick, the mother of Irish teenager Amy Fitzpatrick, who went missing 17 months ago on January 1, 2008, received a call from a man claiming he knew where Amy was, she thought all her prayers had been answered.
A week ago, Audrey received a call from a man with an African accent asking her if she was Amy’s mother.
Kidnapped
She explains in an exclusive to the EWN: “He went on to say he knew where she was. She had been kidnapped and was in Madrid and the police were not to be involved. So I agreed, of course,” says Audrey.
“He then said he’d ring me back with a name and address in two hours. Five hours later, after sitting with my phone in my hand and my heart in my mouth, I got a text to say, and I quote:
‘Can you pay us 500,000 euros. Yes or no send your ans now and will send you all the info you need.’
“The phone number on this text is 672 564 687. I’ll also give you the number he rang me on, too: 672 564 681,” she says.
Audrey commented that the Guardia Civil and her private investigators followed up on these numbers, but they are both pre-pay, and have never been registered.
“But maybe one of your readers somewhere might recognise the numbers.” Audrey appeals.
Audrey Fitzpatrick has taken on private investigators who have been working on Amy’s case since last year.
They are the same detectives the McCanns used, who are based in Barcelona and fly down to meet with them.
They are following up on names that they think might be significant, mainly two English people.
Disappearance
On New Year’s Day, 2008, at 10pm, Amy Fitzpatrick said goodbye to her close friend Ashley Rose, with whom she had been babysitting Ashley’s brother at her friend’s house in Mijas Costa.
Amy should have arrived at her home on the urbanisation Riviera del Sol in Mijas Costa, near Fuengirola, at about 10:10pm, as it was only a short walk away. But, she never arrived home and has not been heard from or seen since that night.
Amy, an Irish girl, was 15 at the time; she has black hair, blue eyes and a pale complexion. She is 1.65m tall.
At the time of her disappearance, she was wearing dark-coloured crushed velvet tracksuit bottoms and a black T-shirt with the word ‘Diesel’ on it in various different colours. She had no money, phone or passport (as she was still on her mother’s).
Sick bastard
“After the text, I fell apart. I’d being holding on for those five hours praying for news, and then even after that, two hours later, he texted again saying he was still waiting on my answer,” says Audrey. “Even if he has no news on Amy, he is some sick bastard,” she ends.
Any information to 0034 617 561 319 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www.missingamy.com
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