Fears bones in Costa del Sol suitcase may be missing schoolgirl Amy Fitzpatrick who vanished walking home 15 years ago
REMAINS found near a top golf club in the Costa del Sol could belong to a schoolgirl who vanished while walking home 15 years ago.
Amy Fitzpatrick, 15, from Dublin, went missing in Mijas Costa, near the town of Fuengirola, on New Year’s Day in 2008.
She had been living in Spain with her mum Audrey, stepfather Dave Mahon and brother Dean.
Amy had spent New Year’s Eve with pals and left at around 10pm to walk a few minutes home – but never returned.
No trace of the teenager has ever been found.
Earlier this month, a gardener made a grisly discovery of a skull, some bones, a bag of clothes and a suitcase near the borders of La Quita golf club in the Costa del Sol.
It is understood forensic experts believe the bones belonged to a woman between 25 and 35 years old who died 10 to 15 years ago.
Amy’s aunt, Christine Kenny, said she has now been in contact with Michael Millis, the boyfriend of a waitress who also vanished in Spain.
Agnese Klavina, 30, was last seen leaving Aqwa Mist in Marbella with two Brits on September 6, 2014.
Latvian-born Agnese spent several years living in London before moving to Spain around six months before she disappeared.
Christine said she could not rule out the possibility the bones could be those of her niece, Amy.
She told the Irish Independent: “Since news of this body in Spain emerged, Michael has been in touch with me as he’s wondering if it could be Agnese.
“We all want to find both Amy and Agnese, as well as anybody else who is still missing.
“This has been tormenting all of us for years and we need closure and resolution.
“The body that was found is someone’s daughter and she deserves dignity.”
Christine said she could not rule out the possibility the bones could be those of her niece, Amy.
“There is a possibility that it could be Amy, though, as there was a satchel bag found with the remains and Amy used to have a similar type of bag,” she said.
Christine has been campaigning for years for answers about what happened to her niece.
After the discovery of the remains, a police official told The Olive Press it was “a possibility” that the bones belonged to Agnese.
“But it is not possible to identify who the victim is until we have the results from the DNA test,” the official said.
“I can only confirm that the suitcase with the bones was found at the Urbanizacion Halcones in Benahavis.”
Millionaire’s son Westley Capper, a convicted hit-and-run killer, and his friend Craig Porter, were accused of kidnapping Agnese after she was last seen getting into Capper’s Merc outside Aqwa Mist.
The club was popular at the time with Premiership footballers and was the scene of a wild fight in June 2016 in which ex-TOWIE star Jake Hall nearly lost a kidney.
Prosecutors claimed Agnese was forced into the car but they were both sensationally cleared in 2019.
Essex-born Capper – who died in 2021 – was instead convicted of a lesser crime of coercion relating to the way he got “drunk” Agnese to leave with him and was handed a two-year prison sentence.
Porter, from Liverpool, was found guilty of being Capper’s accomplice and given a six-month jail sentence.
They were also ordered to pay £8,770 compensation each to Agnese’s family.
Capper insisted early on in the investigation he dropped Agnese off near a flat she was staying at for the summer, close to the home of former England manager Fabio Capello after she changed her mind about going back to his house to party.
Father-of-four Porter said he fell asleep on the back seat of the Mercedes before the drop-off because he was “drunk and tired.”
Fernando Scornik, one of the lawyers who represented Agnese’s family during the high-profile court case, made the blunt admission before the trial started that she was “at the bottom of the sea”.