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Lizzie McAllister & Ruth Suter

Investigator helping woman who claims to be Madeleine McCann sends message to her mum

The private investigator who is helping the woman who believes she is Madeleine McCann has shared a message for her mum. The family of Julia Wendell cut off contact with her after her claims left them "devastated".

The 21-year-old earlier launched a campaign to prove she could be the missing Brit child. But Dr Fia Johansson, the private investigator and self-professed psychic helping her to discover her identity through DNA tests, said she felt "sorry" for Julia's mum and reiterated she wouldn't give up on the case.

"The mother of Juila [is begging] for help as a mother, as a sister, as a very very very hopeless person," she said in a live video on Instagram. Dr Johansson said Julia's mother had been in contact with a UK-based social media page to try to dismantle her daughter's claims.

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