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Vol. 7 Issue 163
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STILL MISSING: Amy Fitzpatrick
EXCLUSIVE By Mason Jones
2008 – was taken to hospital but pronounced dead a short time later. Mahon, a former Calahonda estate agent, has admitted stabbing Dean outside the Dublin flat he shares with Amy’s mother Audrey, but claims it was self defence. Amy and Dean’s aunt, Christine Kenny, who
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June 12 - June 26, 2013
APPEAL FOR AMY
THE family of missing Amy Fitzpatrick has relaunched an appeal for information on the teenager’s disappearance. The news comes as Spanish police vowed to extradite any suspects from Ireland, following the fatal stabbing of Amy’s brother by their mother’s partner Dave Mahon. Dean – the brother of La Cala resident Amy who went missing aged 15 in
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Missing teen’s family makes emotive Olive Press appeal following brother’s killing
worked closely with us to investigate Amy’s disappearance in 2008, told the Olive Press: “It is urgent now that people come forward to discover once and for all what happened to Amy. “If there is anybody in Spain who knows, who was perhaps too scared to talk before, well please ring us... there shouldn’t be any fear now.” After an extensive investigation in 2011, the Olive Press published an in-depth profile on the tragic teenager in the months after she disappeared on New Year’s Day in 2008. It served as a damning indictment of her mother and Mahon, with sources telling the paper she had been neglected and was not happy at home. It emerged she had not been attending school and had sometimes been living rough near the family home. We can now reveal she had
even been working in a local bar. “This poor child is still missing,” added the heartbroken aunt who hopes Dean’s death may lead to more information on his sister. “The Olive Press did a great job in shining some proper light on the case back then and now let’s hope you can do it again.”
Explanation
A detective who has been investigating the case for five years revealed last night that Amy’s mobile phone could be the key to the case. Liam Brady said: “We know from her friends that she had her mobile phone on the night she went missing, but that same mobile phone turned up in her mother’s hands on a TV show in Ireland five months later. “Neither Audrey nor Dave have ever explained why or Turn to page 2
Black mark for Tarifa TARIFA has landed a massive black mark from Spain’s leading environmental group. Its two main beaches Playa de los Lances and Valdevaqueros have received socalled ‘black flags’ from ecologistas en accion for plans to build a massive ‘macro urbanisation’ on virgin land beside them. The pressure group’s annual coastal report slams the scheme, which comprises 350 villas and 1,400 hotel rooms over 71 hectares alongside Valdevaqueros beach.
Damning
Describing it as ‘unacceptable and unsustainable’, the project is to be built on land designated as a UNESCO biosphere reserve, alongside the Alcornocales Natural Park. The report, which comes out alongside the annual Blue Flag awards, made for particularly damning reading for Andalucia this year. In total the number of black flags issued is up dramatically to 80 (up from 64 last year), while there are also 97 so-called puntos negros, or black spots (up from 80 last year). Marbella was awarded an incredible 20 black flags, in particular Linda Vista and Pinillo for recently legalising construction durTurn to page 36