London: A Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann bombarded the missing girl’s mother with 60 calls and messages in a single day, a court has heard.

Julia Wandelt, 24, went on trial on Monday accused of stalking Madeleine’s parents, as well as their other two children.

Wandelt, who has also been known as Julia Wendell, became obsessed with the “myth” that she was abducted and transported to Poland, prompting her to relentlessly pursue the family with emails, phone calls and unannounced visits to their address, Leicester Crown Court heard.

She denies stalking Kate and Gerry McCann, causing serious alarm or distress, between June 2022 and February this year.

Madeleine went missing at age three from her family’s apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007 as her

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