Overview
- Leicester Crown Court imposed a six‑month sentence counted as time served following a five‑week trial.
- Jurors found she harassed Kate and Gerry McCann through persistent contacts from June 2022 to February 2025 while impersonating their missing daughter.
- Prosecutors said she phoned and wrote to the couple, created social media accounts, and manipulated images to support the false identity claim.
- She was arrested in February at Bristol Airport after arriving from Wroclaw, according to evidence presented in court.
- Co‑defendant Karen Spragg was acquitted, and the separate probe into Madeleine’s 2007 disappearance continues with Christian Brückner treated as the principal suspect.