Amy Fitzpatrick posters for her are being torn down as soon as they are put up, as people are worried about the effect the case may have on tourism.

The parents of Amy Fitzpatrick, the Irish sixteen year old who vanished on New Year’s Day from Mijas Costa in Málaga, are travelling to Ireland again for a new media campaign designed to draw attention to the case ahead of the arrival of thousands of Irish tourists on the coast for the summer.Meanwhile the ex BBC journalist Clarence Mitchell, who is the media spokesman in the case of missing Madeleine McCann is now also to help the Fitzpatrick family. Audrey Fitzpatrick and her partner Dave Majon have spoken to Mitchell who is reported to be willing to give his advice for free. La Opinión de Málaga newspaper reports that he has already criticised some residents of the Riviera del Sol urbanisation in Mijas, where Amy vanished, after posters for her are being torn down as soon as they are put up, as people are worried about the effect the case may have on tourism.