A Polish woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann, missing for nearly two decades, was Friday convicted by a UK court of harassing the girl’s parents, but acquitted of stalking them.

Madeleine was three years old when she vanished in 2007 from the apartment in Portugal where her family was holidaying.

It triggered a massive global search and nearly two decades of unrelenting media attention, but the case remains unsolved.

Julia Wandelt, 24, from Lubin in Poland, began harassing Madeleine’s parents in mid-2022. At one point she banged on the door of the family home and on another occasion turned up at a vigil demanding they take DNA tests to prove she was “Maddie”.

During a month-long UK trial, both McCann parents and their now grown-up twins made rare public appearances to testify.

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