Girl remanded over Madeleine McCann people stalking fees

Gavin Bevis

BBC Information, East Midlands

Bea Swallow

BBC Information, Bristol

BBC Julia Wandelt walking through a field with her eyes down. She is wearing a purple dress and has long mousey brown hair. — Julia Wandel, sometimes called Julia Wandelt, was once arrested at Bristol Airport on Wednesday

A girl who claimed to be Madeleine McCann has gave the impression in court docket charged with 4 counts of stalking the lacking lady’s people.

Julia Wandel, sometimes called Julia Wandelt, was once arrested at Bristol Airport on Wednesday on doubt of stalking involving critical alarm and misery.

Ms Wandel, at the beginning from Poland, was once remanded into custody upcoming showing at Leicester Magistrates’ Courtroom on Friday and is because of input a plea on the town’s crown court docket on 7 April.

Courtroom paperwork environment the 23-year-old is said to have despatched messages, left voicemails and became up on the people house between 3 January 2024 and 15 February 2025.

The paperwork say Ms Wandel is said to have long past to the McCanns’ house in Leicestershire two times – on 2 Would possibly and seven December – in addition to sending WhatsApp messages to Kate and Gerry McCann, and Instagram messages to her siblings.

They upload the habits “had a substantial adverse effect” at the people’s day by day actions “when you knew or ought to have known that your course of conduct would cause alarm or distress”.

Girl remanded over Madeleine McCann people stalking fees — Madeleine McCann’s disappearance caused a global seek in 2007

Photo of Madeleine McCann used in missing person appeal — Madeleine McCann’s disappearance caused a global seek in 2007

Madeleine McCann’s disappearance on the time of 3 in Portugal in 2007 is without doubt one of the most generally reported lacking kid instances in historical past and rest unsolved.

Ms Wandel claimed to be lacking Madeleine McCann in an Instagram put up in 2023, announcing she has “gaps in her memory” of early life upcoming struggling abuse.

Alternatively the declare was once contradicted in a DNA check in 2023, which seen she was once from Poland, with some Lithuanian and Romanian heritage.

Prosecutor Ravinder Daroch informed the court docket Ms Wandel is said to have made “persistent” touch with the McCanns since 2022, which allegedly “increased in frequency and became more alarming” as she tried to produce the McCanns mindful “she was their missing daughter”.

A 60-year-old lady from Wales, who was once additionally arrested along Ms Wandel on doubt of stalking, has been absolved on bail, Leicestershire Police stated.