A woman who has claimed she is Madeleine McCann has received DNA test results back which were sent off in an attempt to prove her suspicions.

Julia Wendell, who also goes by the name of Julia Wandelt and Julia Faustyna, had said previously said she has been suspicious she was the missing girl for a while.

Madeleine was three years old when she went missing on May 2007 while on holiday in Portugal.

Her disappearance sparked one of the most high-profile missing people searches in history.

Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann have vowed to never give up looking for their daughter.

As reported by The Mirror, Julia took a DNA test to find out more about her identity and the results have finally come back after weeks of waiting.

Halstead Gazette: Madeleine McCann went missing in Portugal in 2007Madeleine McCann went missing in Portugal in 2007 (Image: PA)

What did the DNA test results show?

The DNA tests have shown that Julia is not Madeleine McCann instead showing that she is from Poland, with some Lithuanian and Romanian heritage.

Dr Fia Johansson, a private investigator and medium who has been helping Julia, spoke to RadarOnline and said: "She is absolutely 100 per cent from Poland.

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

Despite this Dr Johansson said Julia's work has not been in vain and had been helpful in the search for Madeleine.

She added: "At least Julia got the investigators to move on the McCann case – she made things happen."

Why did Julia think she was Madeleine McCann?

Julia appeared on the Dr Phil talk show in the United States on Monday (March 27) and said she began suspecting she was Madeleine in June last year.

She claimed her mother would change the subject when she brought up her birth, and that her photos and birth certificate were never shown to her.

Additionally, she said a document in Poland that tracks her health as a child has six blank pages at the start.

As reported by LBC, Dr Phil had talked her through photos Julia claims show similarities to Madeleine, including her suggestion that she laughs similarly to the missing girl in one photo.

He asked about her parents, who maintain they are her biological parents, but Julia said her mother "didn't want to show me any proof".

"She says she went to the hospital and gave birth to you," Dr Phil said.

Julia replied: "She said, yes. When I asked her for DNA before this whole situation, when I asked her for some pictures from her pregnancy, some childhood pictures… she refused."

LBC added: "When Dr Phil pushed her on why she had not sent DNA samples to the Met, she said she had tried to contact police in the UK but had not heard back.

"She said nobody listened to her at either the British or Polish embassies so she switched to Instagram to push her claims."

Julia's parents previously admitted they were devastated by the whole situation in a statement made in February.

Kate and Gerry McCann are yet to make any official statement on the matter.