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'Why are you doing this to me?' Woman accused of stalking the McCanns has outburst in court
A woman accused of stalking Madeleine McCann's parents shouted: "Why are you doing this to me?" and was led away in tears by officers, during her trial.
Giving evidence against 24-year-old Julia Wandelt, Mrs McCann said her first contact with the Polish woman happened "about three years ago". Wandelt insisted that she was Madeleine, who went missing in Portugal in 2007, while stalking the missing girl's parents by sending emails, calling them and turning up at their address, prosecutors allege.
Follow the latest updates from the trial Wandelt is accused of one count of stalking causing serious alarm and distress to Mrs McCann and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year. She denies stalking.
She is on trial with 61-year-old Karen Spragg, from Cardiff, who is accused of the same offence and also denies the offence. Speaking from behind a blue curtain screening her from the dock at Leicester Crown Court, Mrs McCann spoke about the defendants visiting her home address in Leicestershire on 7 December last year.
Mrs McCann told the court that Wandelt had been "pleading" with her, asking why she wouldn't agree to do a DNA test. Spragg, who accompanied Wandelt, was "slightly more aggressive.
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