Cardiff woman appears in court over alleged stalking of Madeleine McCann’s family

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A woman from Caerau has appeared in Leicester Magistrate’s Court over allegedly stalking Madeleine McCann’s family for a period of 10 months. She appears alongside another woman also accused of stalking, and the pair will return to court in April.

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00:00A 60-year-old woman from Cardiff has appeared in court charged with allegedly stalking Madeleine

00:09McCann's family over a period of nearly 10 months. Karen Sprague from Cairo is accused

00:15of conduct that caused serious alarm or distress to the McCann's between May last year and

00:19February this year. She has been charged with one count of stalking and appeared before

00:23Leicester Magistrates' Court on Friday.

00:27Sprague has been released on bail and is due to return to court in Leicester on the

00:3122nd of April. As part of her bail conditions, she has been ordered not to contact the McCann

00:36family and must stay away from Leicester unless attending legal proceedings.

00:41Another woman, 23-year-old Julia Wandel from Poland, is also facing stalking charges in

00:46connection with the case. She is accused of targeting Kate and Gerry McCann as well as

00:50their teenage children, Sean and Emily, over a period of more than a year.

00:55Prosecutors allege that Wandel repeatedly contacted the family between January 2024

01:00and February this year, sending letters, voicemails and messages via WhatsApp and Instagram. She

01:05is also accused of visiting their home twice in May and December last year.

01:12Wandel has been charged with four counts of stalking and is set to appear at Leicester

01:15Crown Court alongside Mrs Sprague.

01:20Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz,

01:25Portugal. She was three years old at the time and despite ongoing investigations and

01:29the fact that it has remained one of the most high-profile cases in British history and

01:34at the centre of British public consciousness for almost 20 years, the case remains unsolved.

01:39David P. Watkins, reporting for Local TV.

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