BBC News, East Midlands
BBC News, Bristol
A woman who claimed that Madeleine McCann was charged with four points of persecuting a family of a missing girl.
Julia Wandel, also known as Julia Wandelt, was arrested on Wednesday at Bristol Airport on suspicion of chasing serious alarm and trouble.
Mrs. Wandel, originally from Poland, should later appear in the court of Leicester Magistrates.
Court documents state that the 23-year-old sent messages, left speech mail and appeared in a family home between January 3, 2024 and February 15, 2025.
Documents say Mrs. Wandel went to McCanns’s house twice – May 2 and December 7 – as well as sending WhatsApp Message Kate and Gerry McCann, and Instagram messages to her brothers and sisters.
They add the alleged context “had a significant harmful effect on” family activities “when you knew or should know that your behavioral course would cause an alarm or trouble.”
The disappearance of Madeleine McCann at the age of three in Portugal 2007 is one of the most commonly reported cases of missing children in history and remains unresolved.
Mrs. Wendal claimed that Madeleine McCann was missing in the Instagram post in 2023, saying that she had “emptiness in the memory of” childhood after abuse.
However, the claim was contrary to the 2023 DNA test, which revealed that it was from Poland, with some Lithuanian and Romanian heritage.
The 60-year-old Wales woman, who was also arrested with Mrs. Wandel on suspicion of chasing, was released on the guarantor, police of Leicestershire added.
