Today is Amy Fitzpatrick’s 30th birthday.
The family of Amy Fitzpatrick have called on authorities to open a cold case investigation.
Amy was 15-years-old when she went missing in the Costa Del Sol on 1 January 2008. The teenager had been babysitting with a friend at the friend’s brother’s house and left at 10pm. The Mijas Costa house was only a short walk away from where Amy and her family were staying, but she never made it home and was never seen again.
As Breaking News reports, today would have been her 30th birthday.
Amy’s aunt Christine Kelly called for authorities to take action on Newstalk this morning.
She said: “To look into the case, to review it, to let a cold case come in and how we can get some light on what’s going on. At the end of the day she is an Irish citizen, and she is entitled to be fought for. People don’t understand the fact she was only a child, she was only 15, her father is heartbroken.”
Ms Kelly also shared memories of Amy on the morning radio show.
She said: “She just wanted to be home. She just wanted to be with her dad. She was on the phone constantly to him, saying to him when she was in Spain, ‘I love you, Da,’ and he would be messing saying, ‘You just like to hear me talk,’ and she would just giggle at him.”
Over 5,000 people have signed a petition calling for a cold case investigation into Amy Fitzpatrick’s disappearance.
A small ceremony to remember Amy on her 30th birthday is taking place later today.
Ms Kelly told Newstalk: “We are going down to the Sensory Garden on Springdale Road there in Edenmore. We are just going to have a little bit of music and a small little service.”
