Girl remanded over Madeleine McCann household stalking expenses

A girl who claimed to be Madeleine McCann has appeared in courtroom charged with 4 counts of stalking the lacking woman’s household.

Julia Wandel, often known as Julia Wandelt, was arrested at Bristol Airport on Wednesday on suspicion of stalking involving critical alarm and misery.

Ms Wandel, initially from Poland, was remanded into custody after showing at Leicester Magistrates’ Courtroom on Friday and is because of enter a plea on the metropolis’s crown courtroom on 7 April.

Courtroom paperwork state the 23-year-old is alleged to have despatched messages, left voicemails and turned up on the household residence between 3 January 2024 and 15 February 2025.

The paperwork say Ms Wandel is alleged to have gone to the McCanns’ residence in Leicestershire twice – on 2 Might and seven December – in addition to sending WhatsApp messages to Kate and Gerry McCann, and Instagram messages to Madeleine’s siblings.

They add the conduct “had a considerable opposed impact” on the household’s day-to-day actions “if you knew or must have identified that your course of conduct would trigger alarm or misery”.

Madeleine McCann’s disappearance on the age of three in Portugal in 2007 is likely one of the most generally reported lacking baby instances in historical past and stays unsolved.

Prosecutor Ravinder Daroch advised the courtroom Ms Wandel is alleged to have made “persistent” contact with the McCanns since 2022, which allegedly “elevated in frequency and have become extra alarming” as she tried to make the McCanns conscious “she was their lacking daughter”.

A 60-year-old lady from Wales, who was additionally arrested alongside Ms Wandel on suspicion of stalking, has been launched on bail, Leicestershire Police mentioned.