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Justin Kelly & Nicola Croal

Woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann is unlikely to receive DNA test as Polish police give update

A Polish woman named Julia Faustyna shocked the world after she emerged on Instagram two weeks ago claiming she was missing Madeleine McCann. However, it's now looking increasingly unlikely that Gerry and Kate McCann will go ahead with a DNA test, the Irish Mirror reports.

The 21-year-old has accumulated over a million followers since making her wild claims as she compared her facial features in photographs of herself next to images of Maddie who mysteriously disappeared in Portugal 2007. These included an unusual mark in her right eye which is one of Madeleine's distinguishing features and a number of freckles and skin marks which she claims are similar to the missing Brit.

Julia also claims that much of her life hasn't made any sense and she can't remember large chunks of her childhood, leading her to believe she was a victim of abduction. She captioned an Instagram post: “I don’t remember most of my childhood, but my earliest memory is very strong, and it’s about holidays in a hot place where there was a beach and white or very light [coloured] buildings with [apartments]."

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