Julia Wandelt – who believes she’s Madeleine McCann – to take another DNA test after first showed she isn’t missing girl
THE woman who believes she is Madeleine McCann plans to take another DNA test after the first revealed she was not the missing girl.
Julia Wandelt, who also goes by the surnames Wendell and , claimed on social media in recent weeks that she was missing Maddie.
But DNA test results earlier this month revealed that the 21-year-old is not the youngster, who vanished from her family's Portuguese holiday flat in 2007.
Julia claimed she had similar facial features, suffered an abusive childhood and had started to question her parentage.
The Polish woman also said she couldn't remember the early parts of her childhood and claimed she .
Julia has now taken to Instagram saying she wants to do another test.
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The 21-year-old, whose DNA test said she was of Polish heritage, said she didn't feel she had to explain her decision to anyone.
Her case was picked up by private detective Dr Fia Johansson, who flew Julia from Poland to Los Angeles after she started receiving threats online.
Dr Johansson arranged for Julia to give samples for detailed DNA tests.
It was those tests that revealed her heritage - and that she was not Maddie.
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In the hours after Julia received her results she was on a plane back home, with Dr Johansson releasing a statement on her behalf.
In it she claimed Julia had faced "nagging questions".
She then told The Sun that the 21-year-old did not believe the results, and how she was struggling with the findings.
Last week Julia apologised to the McCanns in a 17-page statement.
She reiterated that she couldn't remember parts of her childhood, and claimed she never said she was Maddie - just that she believed she was.
She apologised for creating an Instagram account with the nickname "I Am Madeleine McCann" and says she should have said "Am I?"