Amy Winehouse died from an alcohol overdose a year ago next month. Now her father Mitch opens up about his struggle to come to terms with her death

Amy Winehouse’s father has revealed that he still sends text messages to his daughter’s phone asking her to come home.

Mitch, 60, said he felt guilty that he could now sleep at night because he no longer had to worry about the songstress.

But he told Grazia magazine: “Sometimes I text her telling her to come home. But she’s never coming home and I’m going to have to deal with that for the rest of my life.”

The late singer’s father said he had not been able to scatter his daughter’s ashes but that he had managed to replace the image in his head of her lifeless body with that of her laughing.

“I’ve still got her ashes and my mum Cynthia’s. At some point we’ll do something with them and they’ll be together.”

He told the magazine he could not go inside his daughter’s north London home, where the Back To Black singer was found dead at the age of 27 on July 23 last year.

“I haven’t been inside for three months. It’s too still,” he told the magazine.

The former taxi driver has written a book about his daughter’s life, with the proceeds going to the Amy Winehouse Foundation.