The friend of a teenage girl missing for almost 15 years has revealed the chilling last message he ever received from her.
Alan Quieros, now 39, says he spoke with Amy Fitzpatrick every day before she vanished at age 15.
She was like a “little sister” to him and they last talked on New Year’s Eve 2007 - less than 24 hours before she was last seen.
The Irish Mirror reports Amy confided in him that she hated living in Spain and was set to move back to Ireland within weeks - but was devastated when the move was cancelled.
Alan also revealed that Amy, originally from Coolock, Dublin, was being bullied in school - but said she had a "scheme" in mind.
Alan said: “All Amy wanted to do was leave Spain, go back to Ireland, and live with her dad Christopher.
“She was told she could go back to Ireland and she was counting down the days, but was devastated when it [was] cancelled.”
Amy was just 15 when she vanished from Calypso in Mijas on the Costa del Sol in Spain on New Year’s Day 2008.
She was last seen when she left pal Ashley Rose’s home at 10pm where she was helping babysit her pal’s brother in Riviera del Sol near Mijas on the Costa Del Sol to return to her own villa, which was a 10-minute walk away.
At the time, Amy was living with her mum Audrey, her stepdad Dave Mahon and her brother Dean.
Dean, 23, was tragically stabbed to death by his stepfather Mahon on May 25, 2013.
Alan, who now works as a mechanic, said he was in a five-piece band and was preparing for a gig on New Year’s Eve when he was last in touch with the teenager.
He said: “I was trying to get ready for the show. I was messaging her, in between getting ready, on MSN. I was calling my mates to arrange for equipment to be moved to the venue so I had all sorts going on.
“But Amy was distraught that night. She told me that the Ireland move had been cancelled. She was a bit vague about it.
“The conversation went on for a bit longer so I said ‘Aimz, I really need to go as I’m running late. I’ll speak to you tomorrow. Don’t worry about anything I’ll sort it out.
“Have a Happy New Year, I love you to bits.” And he said Amy responded with: “I love you, Happy New Year, and don’t worry about me, I’ve got a scheme.”
Alan, met her through another pal Kim Simpson, and pressed Amy about what she meant and he told her not to “do anything silly” before reassuring her everything would be “sorted”.
She responded with “you’ll find out”. He didn’t think too much about it until she was later reported missing
Speaking from Broadstairs in Kent, Alan added: “After she was reported missing, I went straight back to that conversation and thought ‘frigging hell, Amy, what have you done.’
“I was thinking what did she mean by having a ‘scheme’. I phoned the Spanish police at the time about it but nothing ever came from it. But I began to get really worried when nobody heard from her.
“I started to think, there’s something more to this than meets the eye because there’s no way with all these appeals that Amy wouldn’t have reached out to her dad Christopher.”
Alan said at the time that it emerged a Ford Fiesta which belonged to a family friend had gone missing.
He said: “There was no way Amy drove anywhere. When I was in Spain in October before she went missing.
“Me and my brother had a hire car that we let Amy drive 100 metres down a rural road and she busted a tyre and smashed both wing mirrors off and there wasn’t another car on the road. So there is no way she drove that car.”
Alan is 100 per cent certain Amy made it home when she left Ashley Rose’s home.
Amy never went anywhere without her pink Nokia phone and Ashley also claims Amy had her phone with her when she left her house. This claim is disputed by Amy’s mum Audrey, who said Amy’s Nokia was in the house.
Mum Audrey is adamant that Amy didn’t have her phone, which was found in their house with her when she disappeared.
Alan said: “I hope every day somebody will come forward with some sort of key information because as I say 15 years is a long time for Amy’s dad Chris and her aunty Christine to be worried like they have.
“They post something on Amy’s missing Facebook page nearly every day. The pair of them have soldiered on. They’ve been the ones fighting the fight.
“The information I have has never been released. I’m sure Amy was talking to lots of people in the days before she went missing so there may very well be other pieces of information that might seem insignificant on their own but as a whole may be crucial evidence.
“Amy is never off my mind and I hope there is closure one day.”
He also added that he doesn’t believe Amy is still alive.
“No, not after all this time, I would find it very difficult to believe, if I’m honest. Because after all this time she would have made contact with somebody.
“She loved her friends and her family.”
