Amy: New pressure from Dublin

IRISH officials are finally pressing Spanish police to reopen an investigation into missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick.

The Olive Press has helped spark the renewed calls after the Guardia Civil admitted its officers had yet to dig up a specific Mijas site where Amy’s remains could be buried.

Her aunt, Christine Kenny, thanked the paper this week after a ‘positive’ meet-

By Anthony Piovesan

ing with Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Micheal Martin.

“He is very eager to help and has already had officials contact the Spanish authorities to see how they can progress the case,” she said. In particular, she has pinpointed a stable block at the Hippodromo racetrack in Mijas, where an anonymous caller told her Amy was buried in 2014.

“The Minister seems very interested and sincere and even looked through some of the documents himself,” added Kenny, who has continually campaigned for her niece.

She had prepared a huge dossier of documents for the Minister as she talked him through the twists and turns of the case since Amy disappeared from Mijas on New Years Day in 2008.

Compassion

"It's the first time I've actually gone to a meeting so completely different. You could really see his compassion,” she said.

A spokesman for minister