MADELEINE MCCANN NEW TRIAL BEGINS

The family faces yet more heartbreak

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For nearly two heartbreaking decades, Gerry and Kate McCann have been searching for their little girl Madeleine, who vanished aged three, while they were holidaying in Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2007.

While they've always held on to hope that Madeleine would be found, the couple had no idea of the "unimaginable trauma" they faced when a woman claiming to be their daughter, and her accomplice who she met online, allegedly began stalking them.

Police have alleged that from June 2022 to February 2024, Julia Wandelt and Karen Spragg bombarded the McCanns with hundreds of messages and emails – in one day Wandelt called Kate 60 times.

Wandelt, 24, and Spragg, 61, are on trial in Leicester Crown Court charged with one count of stalking each.

Both deny the charges.