Two women have pleaded not guilty to stalking the family of Madeleine McCann.
A 23-year-old Polish national, Julia Wandel, was accused of stalking Kate, Gerry, Sean and Amelie McCann between January 3, 2024, and February 15 this year.
She is also alleged to have visited the McCanns' family home in Leicestershire on May 2 and December 7 last year.
Wandel, also known as Wandelt, is accused of sending a letter, calls, voicemails and WhatsApp messages to Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann - and sending her siblings Amelie and Sean McCann Instagram messages between January 3 and December 29 last year.
Karen Spragg (left) and Julia Wandel have pleaded not guilty
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The 23-year-old also claimed to have been the missing girl herself in the past.
And 60-year-old Karen Spragg, of Caerau in Cardiff, was charged with one count of stalking involving serious alarm or distress between May 3, 2024, and February 21 this year.
The indictment alleges that Spragg made calls, sent letters and attended the home address of Madeleine's parents.
At Leicester Crown Court today, the pair denied all charges.
Wandel was remanded back into custody while Spragg was granted conditional bail.
Both will appear at the same court for trial on October 2.
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60-year-old Spragg, pictured today, was granted conditional bail
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Madeleine McCann was on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal when she went missing on May 3, 2007.
A nearly two-decade-long international investigation into her disappearance has followed.
Kate and Gerry McCann had initially pursued their daughter's vanishing using private detectives, but in 2011, the Metropolitan Police opened its own inquiry, Operation Grange.
The Met's senior investigating officer said Maddie's disappearance was being treated as "a criminal act by a stranger", most likely a planned abduction or burglary gone wrong.
Brueckner was named as the prime suspect in Madeleine's disappearance in June 2020GETTYIn 2013, Scotland Yard released photo-fit images of suspects they wanted to track down, including one of a man seen carrying a child toward the beach on the night Madeleine vanished - leading police in Portugal to reopen their own probe.
Operation Grange was then pared back in 2015, but detectives still on the case continued to pursue a small number of inquiries.
In 2020, German authorities declared paedophile Christian Brueckner their prime suspect behind McCann's murder and abduction.
And earlier this year, Brueckner was told he will not face any charges in the foreseeable future - with the German set to be freed from an unrelated jail sentence in September.
