Woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann 'didn't exist' until she was five, according to private investigator

Julia Wendell, known as the Polish woman claiming to be the missing Madeleine McCann, allegedly "didn't exist" for the first five years of her life, according to private investigator and self-professed medium Dr Fia Johansson.

Wendell, 21, who maintains she is the missing British girl that disappeared in Portugal in 2007, has appeared on Dr Johansson's Instagram account in recent days to share updates on her claim after her own accounts were either removed or deleted.

She sparked a storm across the internet recently after she shared what she said was evidence to suggest she might be Madeleine, the Leicestershire girl who went missing during a family holiday to Portugal in 2007 aged three.

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Julia alleges that her age may be fake as Madeleine would now be 19.

In a bid to help her with her claim Dr Johansson, who has in the past aided police on missing person cases in the US, recently headed to Poland to visit Julia. The pair are now currently in the US.

Speaking with RadarOnline Dr Johansson has claimed that her team has found no hospital records for Julia in Wroclaw related to the first five years of her life. Wroclaw is the city that she allegedly grew up in.

Dr Johansson said: “It was so strange because everything in Julia’s health book, everything, started at the age of five.

“So, everything between the ages of zero months to five years – everything — is missing!

“And there is no signature by a doctor showing that they had removed any of the records from her file. She just doesn’t exist during that time frame.”

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