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Accused 'not a Madeleine DNA match'
Western Mail
|October 21, 2025
THE alleged stalker of the McCann family does not match a DNA sample from Madeleine's pillowcase taken from her home in the days after she disappeared, a forensic expert has told a court.
Jurors at Leicester Crown Court also heard that Polish national Julia Wandelt, 24, who has claimed to be the missing girl, "is not the biological child of Kate and Gerry McCann".
Wandelt, from Lubin in southwest Poland, sat silently in the dock yesterday while forensic scientist Rosalyn Hammond told the court that there is "not a match" between Wandelt's and Madeleine's DNA profiles.
Ms Hammond, who has been involved in Madeleine's case since 2012, said: "The profiles from the two samples are different so Julia Wandelt cannot be Madeleine McCann.
"There are seven areas where they have the same component, out of 32. They happen to have the same component designation."
She said the full result "writes off the possibility that DNA is from the same person".
This story is from the October 21, 2025 edition of Western Mail.
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