LONDON — A UK jury on Friday convicted a Polish woman who had claimed to be Madeleine McCann — one of the world’s highest-profile missing persons — of harassing the girl’s parents, but acquitted her of stalking them.

Madeleine was just three years old when she vanished 18 years ago from the apartment where her family was vacationing on Portugal’s Algarve coast, triggering a massive global search to find her.

Jurors found Julia Wandelt, 24, from Lubin in Poland, guilty of harassment but cleared her of the more serious charge of stalking “involving serious alarm and distress” to Kate and Gerry McCann.

The McCann parents, both doctors, have borne the brunt of international attention ever since their daughter disappeared in 2007. Nearly two decades on, the case remains unsolved.

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