Guardia Civil are still looking for the white car belonging to Richard Brian O’Shea, a 34 year old family friend of the Fitzpatricks. He reported the Ford Fiesta missing shortly after Amy disappeared. Spanish press reports indicated that she knew that the vehicle was not locked and how to start it, but this has been denied by the owner. Richard Brian O’Shea told the Irish Independent that ‘The suggestion Amy used the car is ridiculous. It was locked and she’d never driven it. She’s only 15 for God’s sake’.Ritchie O'Shea broke his silence following his 24-hour detention earlier this week to claim his name was being dragged through the mud.
He was arrested on an outstanding warrant relating to a traffic offence on Wednesday and taken to court on Thursday to receive a fine and an 18-month driving ban.
Police have confirmed his arrest had nothing to do with the Irish teenager's disappearance on New Year's Day from her home on Spain's Costa del Sol.
But Ritchie, 34, said he was now a virtual prisoner in his own home and was planning to leave Spain in the next few days.

Computer expert Ritchie, who has known Amy's stepdad Dave Mahon, 36, and her mum Audrey, 39, for several years, added: "I'm confused myself as to what has happened to Amy. I knew she was missing Ireland and at the beginning I thought she had most probably run away.
"But now I fear something terrible may have happened to her. She's been gone a long time and I would have expected her to make contact with a friend before now.
"But I'm happy to repeat myself until I'm blue in the face. I have nothing to do with her disappearance."
Police are searching for a missing Ford Fiesta Ritchie used that was parked outside his former home and disappeared at the start of the year.
Spanish newspapers have reported that detectives are probing the possibility that Amy had access to the car and may have used it to leave the Costa del Sol.
But Ritchie said: "The suggestion Amy used the car is ridiculous. It was locked and she'd never driven it. She's only 15 for God's sake."