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Ethan Blackshaw

Woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann deletes Instagram account as doubts cast

Madeleine McCann Julia Wendell Instagram TikTok Facebook Fia Johansson Police

The Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann has deleted her Instagram account as doubts are cast on the Polish police's public statement.

Julia Wendell had been documenting her claims and supposed evidence online through her recently deleted Facebook and TikTok accounts. She has now deleted her Instagram too. The 21-year-old, who believed she was the missing Leicestershire girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged 7, had amassed over 1 million followers on the social media site.

Here she claimed she had a speck in her eye similar to Madeleine's, that she couldn't remember most of her childhood and that she was allegedly abused by a German paedophile who looked like an early suspect in the Madeleine case. Dr Fia Johansson, a private eye and supposed medium visited Julia on March 1 to look at her claims. The two appeared in a video together which has since been deleted.

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