MISSING teen Amy Fitzpatrick’s mother and stepfather say they will celebrate her 30th birthday by buying cake, playing music and “pretending she’s here.”
In an exclusive interview with our sister title The Star, Audrey Mahon says she and her husband Dave will listen to music and go shopping as Amy loved to do - as they mark her 30th birthday next week- some 14 years on from her disappearance.
Tragic Irish teen Amy was just 15 years old when she vanished from the Mijas Costa area of Spain on New Years Day, 2008 - but now Audrey says she and Dave don’t have enough money to properly campaign for answers - after spending "hundreds of thousands."
But next Tuesday, Audrey says she and Dave will buy a birthday cake and pretend her daughter is with them, as they mark her 30th without her.
“We’re going to go shopping like we always did on her birthday - get her a birthday cake, play her music and just pretend she’s still here with me,” Audrey told us.
“Amy loved shopping and we’ll go shopping that day. As far as I’m concerned she’s there shopping with me.”
And she says Amy’s love for music, particularly for artists like Elvis, will be celebrated by her and Dave next week, as they mark the occasion in an undisclosed location.
“So it won’t be songs from the chats that we’d be singing. She loves Elvis as well and she got that from Davey because he loves Elvis. She used to rob his CDs and he used to go mad,” she said.
“She always had CDs strewn all over the place. She loves the all the oldies. So we’ll be playing them next week I suppose.”
We asked Audrey if her husband Dave wanted to also say anything about Amy on this tragic landmark occasion.
“The way it is, it's actually very hard for Davey to talk about Amy. As far as he’s concerned that’s his baby, and he wouldn’t be up for the conversation,” she told us.
“That’s too hard for him,” she said.
The investigation into Amy’s disappearance continues in Spain - though no trace of the missing teen has ever been found.
Amy was last seen walking from her friend Ashley Rose’s house at around 10pm on New Years Day, 2008, walking in the direction of her home, where she lived with her mother Audrey and stepfather Dave Mahon.
She was never seen again.
