The distraught family of Amy Fitzpatrick has called on the Irish Government to press Spanish authorities into upgrading their probe into a murder investigation.
Christine Kenny, who is the Irish teen’s aunt, urged Tanaiste and Foreign Minister Micheal Martin to intervene after claiming evidence passed to the Guardia Civil was not acted upon. One of which was a tip-off she received which said Amy’s remains are buried in a disused Hippodrome racetrack – a 10-minute drive from where she vanished.
Christine said she received an anonymous call a few years ago claiming her niece had been murdered and her body was in the fifth stable. Speaking to the media, before hand-delivering personalised letters to politicians at Leinster House yesterday, she explained: “Amy’s case is archived so it means they’re [Spanish police] not looking on Amy’s case and haven’t been looking on it for years but it needs to be upgraded to murder.
