Madeleine McCann trial latest: ‘Stalker’ who said she’s missing girl tells court how she found out who she is

Julia Wandelt then tells Leicester Crown Court that she tried to get hold of her birth certificate.

She says she asked her parents “many times”, but they “never wanted to provide me with it”.

Wandelt tells the court she wanted it because she believed she was adopted.

She says she was told she wasn’t adopted, but this “made her question more”.

Describing an interaction with a local official, she says:

“She told me my parents were my parents and I wasn’t adopted.”

Wandelt also says she discussed DNA with her parents “many times” and she asked them for a test “plenty of times”.

But they “always refused” to give her a DNA test.

“It made me feel a bit surprised because I didn’t expect them to refuse, especially because at that time I still dealt with a lot of emotional problems,” she says.

Wandelt says she called the registry in the city where she was born to get a copy of her birth certificate – but was told “straight away” she wasn’t adopted.

“[That] made me even question more… because in Poland, this official institution, they are not allowed to give this personal information without verification.”