I can't heal from my trauma if I never know who I am...

- MADDIE STALKING ACCUSED YESTERDAY

- BY SOPHIE ROBINSON & ELLIE CRABBE

A WOMAN on trial accused of stalking Madeleine McCann's parents told a court she is still questioning her identity after claiming to be the missing girl.

Julia Wandelt, 24, has told a court she has sympathy for the McCanns, who are still looking for Madeleine 18 years after she disappeared during a family holiday in Portugal. She told the court she did not know how big Madeleine's story was before she read about the case, and denied claiming to be the girl for attention or money.

Asked about her motivation to claim to be Madeleine, she told the court she still questions her identity and “could not be able to heal from my trauma if I never fully know who I am”.

Wandelt, from Lubin in southwest Poland, is alleged to have peddled the myth that she is Madeleine, while stalking Kate and Gerry McCann by sending emails, making calls and turning up at their home.