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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Robyn Vinter

Alleged stalker’s interactions ‘creepy’, Madeleine McCann’s siblings tell court

Julia Wandelt
Julia Wandelt and her co-defendant, Karen Spragg, deny the charges against them. Photograph: Go Get Funding

Madeleine McCann’s brother and sister have described being stressed and scared by their “creepy” and “deeply disturbing” interactions with an alleged stalker who claimed to be their missing sister.

Giving evidence at the trial of Julia Wandelt, 24, who stands accused of targeting the family in a two-and-a-half-year harassment campaign, the twins Amelie and Sean McCann recalled the defendant contacting them a number of times saying she was Madeleine, who disappeared during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 when she was three and they were two.

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