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Woman claiming to be missing Madeline McCann finally receives DNA result

A woman claiming to be missing Madeline McCann has received DNA results.

Julia Wendell has spent the past few weeks insisting she is the British toddler, and demanded to be tested.

But results have now shown the 21-year-old isn't Madeline, despite similarities in their appearance, including the rare eye condition – a coloboma in her right eye, which makes the pupil appear misshapen when part of the tissue is missing.

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Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007 at the age of three during a family holiday to Portugal. Police have since spent millions campaigning and searching to find the missing toddler, The Mirror reports.

After weeks of waiting, Julia has received the DNA results which will help find out more about her true identity.

Her DNA test results have now confirmed that she is not the Brit, instead showing that she is from Poland, with some Lithuanian and Romanian heritage.

DNA results have proven that Julia Wendell is not Madeleine McCann (Instagram)

"She is absolutely 100 percent from Poland," Dr Fia Johansson, a private investigator and medium who has been helping Julia, has said.

"She is a small percentage of Lithuanian and Russian but the test results show she is Polish," she told RadarOnline.

Dr Johansson said Julia's work has not been in vain and she claims Julia's search for answers has been helpful to move the search for Madeleine forward.

"At least Julia got the investigators to move on the McCann case – she made things happen," she said.

The young Pole recently appeared on popular American talk show Dr Phil to discuss her claims.

She discussed her early memories and showed pictures of herself as a child to try and support her beliefs.

The 21 year-old claimed that she doesn't want any form of contact with her Polish parents, no matter what the DNA results show.

She firmly stated: "If she is my mother, I don't want to have contact with her that's all, but I believe she isn't my mother."

Julia was also read out a statement from her family during her time on the show.

"Julia also has these photos, because she took them from the family home with the birth certificate, as well as numerous hospital discharges.

"We always tried to understand all situations that happened with Julia. Numerous therapies, medicines, psychologists and psychiatrists - Julia had it all guaranteed. She wasn't left alone," the statement read, which was released in February.

"Threats to our address from Julia, her lies and manipulations, activity on the internet. We've seen it all and we've tried to prevent it, to explain, we've asked her to stop," the statement continued.

"Julia once wanted to be a singer, a model. She always wanted to be popular. What's happening now she got one million followers.

"We're afraid Julia will carry the inevitable. The internet won't forget, and it's obvious that Julia isn't Maddie. We are devastated at this current situation."

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