Search for Amy scaled down due to absence of clues

SPANISH police have scaled down their search for missing 15-year-old Dublin girl Amy Fitzpatrick after they failed to uncover any clues following two days of intensive investigations.

Police have not ruled out that she was kidnapped by paedophiles or murdered, or that she could simply have run away after she left a friend’s house late on New Year’s Day.

More than 200 police, Red Cross, civil protection and firemen searched the area around her home and nearby highway and sand dunes.