A Polish national who claimed to be Madeleine McCann has been found guilty at Leicester Crown Court of harassing Kate and Gerry McCann.
Julia Wandelt, 24, was also cleared of stalking the missing toddler's parents after a five-week trial.
The jury arrived at their decision unanimously after deliberating for more than seven hours.
Additionally, Ms Wandelt was made the subject of a restraining order against Kate and Gerry McCann because she poses a "significant risk of the harassment of the McCanns in future," according to trial judge Mrs Justice Cutts.
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She did not return to the courtroom to hear discussions about a potential restraining order against her.
Karen Spragg, Ms Wandelt's friend and "supporter", was also on trial but the 61-year-old care worker was found not guilty of stalking or harassment.
Before the verdicts were handed down, the pair held hands and chatted in the dock.
Ms Wandelt gasped and Ms Spragg began to weep when the verdict was read out.
Julia Wandelt was found guilty of harassing Kate and Gerry McCann
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Immediately afterwards, trial judge Mrs Justice Cutts pointed out that the maximum sentence for harassment was six months’ imprisonment.
The judge said: “I think it also is a fact that Julia Wandelt has been in custody since her arrest in February of this year.
“So she will have been in custody in fact for longer than the maximum sentence.”
The judge then went on to thank the jury for their service on the trial and the “care and attention” they had brought to considering the evidence.
Today's verdict is the result of a five-week trial, in which Ms Wandelt faced questions over her behaviour over the past three years.
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Ms Wandelt was said to have gasped when the verdict was read out
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The 24-year-old was heard to have launched a campaign of phone calls, messages and voicemails to Kate and Gerry McCann with claims she was their missing daughter.
Ms Wandelt also showed up uninvited to the couple's home, demanding a DNA test that she felt would prove her claims.
Her barrister argued that Ms Wandelt was “vulnerable” and that her actions could be explained as those of a “pathetic young woman” acting out of “desperation”.
However, prosecutor Michael Duck KC said Ms Wandelt was “cruel and unforgiving” in her pursuit of the couple.
He described her as a “lady of some considerable intelligence who is capable of being extremely manipulative”.
Meanwhile, Ms Spragg's defence team claimed she was earnestly trying to solve the crime of Madeleine's disappearance when she took Ms Wandelt to the McCann home.
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