Julia Wandelt, a woman who claimed to be the missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, told Kate McCann: "I know you loved me," a court has heard.

The 24-year-old woman from southwest Poland is on trial at Leicester Crown Court along with Karen Spragg, 61, from Cardiff, accused of one count of stalking the McCann family by calling and messaging them and turning up at their home.

On the second day of questioning from her defence, Tom Price KC, Wandelt told the jury that she travelled to the McCann family home in Leicestershire, in December last year, to try and speak to Gerry and Kate McCann.

This came after she repeatedly tried to contact the parents and tried to meet them in person at an annual vigil held for Madeleine McCann.

During her time in the witness box, Wandelt said she first

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