A woman who became convinced she is missing Madeleine McCann told Kate McCann ‘you don’t give up on your daughter’, a court has heard.

Julia Wandelt is on trial at Leicester crown court accused of stalking Kate and Gerry McCann as well as their other children.

Wandelt, 24, claimed she is the missing girl, who disappeared from a holiday villa in Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2007 and remains unsolved.

Kate McCann is giving evidence in court today, and said she first became aware of Wandelt’s existence about three years ago.

She said she had ignored all of the defendant’s approaches until September 2024, when she found out Wandelt had been contacting her other daughter, Amelie, since January of that year.

Kate told the court: ‘It was the final straw for me. I discussed it with the police.

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