Madeleine McCann: Woman charged with stalking family
A woman has been charged as part of an investigation into the alleged stalking of Madeleine McCann's family.Karen Spragg, of Caerau, Cardiff, has been charged with one count of stalking involving serious alarm or distress between 3 May 2024 and 21 February this year, Leicestershire Police said.The 60-year-old is due to appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Friday.On the same day, Julia Wandel, 23, of Lubin, Poland, is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court after she was charged in February with four counts of stalking against the McCann family.
Ms Wandel is accused of stalking Kate and Gerry McCann and Madeleine's siblings between 3 January 2024 and 15 February 2025.She is alleged to have gone to the family home in Leicestershire on 2 May and 7 December 2024.She is also accused of sending a letter to the family along with calls and messages on Instagram and WhatsApp.Madeleine McCann's disappearance at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and remains unsolved.
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The PSNI have also noted scenes of disorder in Belfast, Lisburn, Carrickfergus and Newtownabbey earlier in the week, as businesses, homes and cars were attacked and damaged. By Wednesday, six individuals had been arrested for public order offences, and one charged. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he 'utterly condemns' violence which left 32 police officers injured after the second night of disturbances. PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has warned the rioting 'risks undermining' the criminal justice process into an allegation of a sex attack on a teenage girl in Ballymena at the weekend. Stormont ministers have also made an urgent appeal for calm and said the justice process had to be allowed to take its course. First Minister Michelle O'Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly appeared together on Wednesday to voice their condemnation. Sinn Fein vice-president Ms O'Neill told reporters in Belfast: 'It's pure racism, there is no other way to dress it up.' Ms Little-Pengelly described the scenes in Ballymena as 'unacceptable thuggery'. With the protests focused in predominantly loyalist areas in Ballymena, Ms O'Neill said she did not believe it would be helpful for her to visit in the current context. DUP MLA Ms Little-Pengelly met residents in the town on Wednesday and said the local community are in fear and wanted the violence to stop. 'The key message here today is around that violence, and that the violence needs to stop, that's what the community wants to put across, and that's why I'm here to send that very clear and united message from right throughout the community and local residents for that to stop,' she said. The violence began around Clonavon Terrace on Monday night following an earlier peaceful protest which was organised in support of the family of a girl who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault in the area. Two teenage boys, who spoke to a court through a Romanian interpreter, have been charged.
