Candles lit across Europe for Amy
Family and friends are gathering this Sunday, 07 February across
Europe to mark the eighteenth birthday of missing Dublin girl AMY FITZPATRICK.
At 12 noon (local time) her mother will be leading a ceremony
lighting candles in Mijas, Spain, which will be matched in St Brendan’s Church
in Coolock, Dublin and all over the British Isles at 11 am GMT.
Amy’s mother Audrey says she wants people to light candles
for her daughter as she won’t be able to have a birthday cake.
The Coolock teenager hasn’t been seen since January 1st
2008 despite extensive searches and appeals. The Lucie Blackman Trust’s Missing
Abroad programme has an online appeal with hotlines and full details here.
The family was further rocked last year with the death of
Amy’s cousin, Irish pop star Beverly O’Sullivan, who died in a car crash in
India.
Amy’s mum, who calls her daughter ‘Buntin’, added this heart
rending message:
At
9.30am on a Friday the 7th of February 1992, my Amy came screaming into the
world, 2 weeks late, as she always is and stayed vocal till the last time I spoke
with her, when as always we ended our phone call saying I love you before
we said goodbye!
I know you’re always late baby but 2 YEARS now
is pushing it!
18 years old, a young woman but always a baby to me. I hope wherever you
are you’re safe and happy and you have a great 18th and whenever you’re
ready to come home I’ll be waiting to hold you, the same way I held you on the
day you were born and never let you go again.
