An American woman has claimed that she is Madeleine McCann and that she has DNA “proof”.

Eugenea Collins, 22, from Arkansas has made the claim, despite being discredited.

Collins believed she was the child after witnessing another women claiming to be her – Julia Wandelt.

Wandelt gained popularity online after claiming to be the missing British toddler who went missing in Portugal in 2007.

The 23-year-old had landed in Bristol airport when authorities arrested her on suspicion of stalking and harassing the McCann family.

Her friend who was also travelling with her and is thought to be in their 60s was also arrested.

Wandelt had previously shared DNA results that were submitted to a ‘world expert’ who compared them to the crime scene where the child disappeared.

She claimed that her eyes, teeth and voice were compared with the child, who went missing 18 years ago, aged 3.

The 23-year-old claimed that her ‘source’ believes that there is genetic evidence that ‘strongly supports that Gerry McCann could be Julia Wandelt’s biological father’.

Sharing her DNA online, the results say she is ‘part British and part Irish’ and not 100% Polish.

What she has called ‘Part two’ of the results were analysed by the ‘highly respected and recognised world expert’ Dr Monte Miller and shared by Ms Wandelt.

After looking at the DNA, Miller, who has a PhD in Biochemistry from Loma Linda University in California, delivered an update to Wandelt.

Miller’s email to the 23-year-old read: ‘The simple answer is that the suspect is not the source of the DNA on the evidence, because their DNA is not fully established everywhere.

‘However, they do match fairly well, more than I would expect at random, and a specific pattern emerges that look like an almost certain family connection’.

The final analysis of the result had Wandelt’s source claiming a ‘perfect match’ with her DNA to the samples taken from the crime scene.

The anonymous source analysed ‘hair obtained from the floor of the crime scene in Portugal’, and ‘saliva obtained from the bed quilt at the scene’.

After cross-referencing, the source said the results showed a 69.23% match, ‘suggesting a biological connection between the two individuals’.

They added ‘The genetic evidence strongly supports that McCann could be Julia Wandelt’s biological father, as the data aligns perfectly with a parent-child relationship.

‘If this analysis is accurate and properly derived from their DNA samples, the relationship between McCann and Julia Wandelt is biologically consistent with that of a father and daughter.’

The 23-year-old’s parents have previously denied her claims. They said:  ‘For us as a family it is obvious that Julia is our daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, cousin and step niece. We have memories, we have pictures.

‘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. 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, explain it, we’ve asked her to stop.’

Her Polish parents have refused to take a DNA test to prove they are in fact her biological parents.

Wandelt’s media rep, Surjit Singh Clair has shared the following statement: ‘Despite indicators she is related to Gerry McCann, neither he nor Kate will take a DNA test.

‘Police have denied organising a DNA test after hearing Julia was Polish on the BBC, but even if she was just “a random Polish person” how can they possibly explain her DNA being linked to the crime scene.

‘They have spent £20million on this investigation and now won’t spend £60 on a DNA test, even though she offered to pay for it.’

Now, Collins has come forward with “evidence”. Her birthday is May 12, 2002, meaning she would be the correct age and she also has blonde hair and blue eyes, like the child.

After taking an Ancestry DNA test, she discovered that she is 68% English and Northwestern European – which she sees as evidence that she is the missing child.

She was left upset that the Arkansas police department did not take her case seriously, despite her “evidence”.

She shared that she was suspicious after her family would not give her a copy of her birth certificate.

‘I am unable to get any kind of identification,’ Collins said. ‘I couldn’t even get any help from the people at the red cross when my house was burned because I have no identification.’

‘I have never seen an original birth certificate neither. The only thing I saw had someone else’s name wrote on it and they marked that out and wrote mine above it.’