Julia Wandelt, 24, is accused of stalking Kate and Gerry McCann and claiming she was the three-year-old who went missing during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 View 5 Images Julia Wandelt (Image: help-for-julia-wandelt/gogetfunding)

A Polish woman accused of stalking Madeleine McCann's family had to be persuaded by a missing persons charity that she wasn't three separate disappeared children , a court has been told. Leicester Crown Court heard that Julia Wandelt, 24, "came back with a fresh tale" weeks after the Poland-based charity informed her she wasn't a child who vanished in Germany.

Iwona Modliborska, who co-founded the charity 10 years ago, gave evidence via video link with the help of a Polish translator on Tuesday (October 21). She told the court that Wandelt

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