A friend of missing teen Amy Fitzpatrick says he’s tempted to go to Spain and dig up a stable where she is alleged to be buried.
Alan Quieros, who has only recently publicly disclosed a chilling final conversation Amy had with him the night before she vanished, says he doesn’t understand why no one has searched the site. Last year Amy’s father Christopher and aunt Christine Kenny told how an anonymous source alleged they would find her remains under Stable Number 5 in the derelict Hippodrome racetrack outside the Costa del Sol resort of La Cala de Mijas.
The location is only a 15 minute drive from where Amy, then 15-years-old, vanished on New Year’s Day, 2008 - and the family have pleaded with the Spanish police to search the site.
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But over a year on, Amy’s friend Alan says he’s now frustrated that no one seems to have searched the site - and he’s tempted to go there and do so himself. Alan told this paper: “If I am ever back in Spain and this hasn’t been looked into, I’d be inclined and I’d be very tempted to go to that horse track and dig it up myself.
“How nobody has at this point is beyond me. It’s made me think bugger me, I’ll go to this disused horse track and do it myself.”
The La Guardia Civil have been investigating Amy’s disappearance now for almost 15 years - but no trace of the Irish teen has ever been found.
Alan said: “If the Spanish police won’t do it then someone should. From my understanding it’s shut down and abandoned so what’s to stop people going to do it? If it hasn’t been done I’d be seriously tempted.
“I’m sure if I posted on the Missing Amy Facebook page that I was going there, by the time I got there there’d be people waiting for me with wheelbarrows and shovels. I don’t know what’s stopping anybody doing it.”
Recently Alan publicly disclosed for the first time a chat he had with Amy on New Year’s Eve 2007 on social network site MSN - in which the teen told him she had a “scheme”. Amy had confided in Alan that her mother Audrey had cancelled a planned trip home to Ireland, and he says she was “distraught” over this.
Audrey recently confirmed Alan’s account to this paper and said she had no choice but to cancel the trip because her son Dean had gotten into trouble. Alan said: “Amy was distraught because the Ireland move had fallen through. I said to her what happened and she was very vague about it.
“Amy said ‘my mum said I’m not going now.’ So I said to Amy tomorrow I’m going to phone [a friend] and I’ll get her to sort out your passport and flights. I’ll send her the money.”
But he said the teen, who he was friends with as part of a wider group, told him not to worry - and that she had a plan of her own. Alan, who never saw Amy again, added: “I said don’t do anything silly, Amy. Love you, speak to you tomorrow.”
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