Alleged Harasser Asked: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told call records and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and is still unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
Another phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"
"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.
The jury was informed that via electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the information, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.
On 9 October 2024, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."
That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I won't give up and I will prove my point."
The court learned the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time preceding the appearance to the village, the county, in that winter.
The court learned message exchanges between the two individuals, in last November, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the trip to their home, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We're currently sitting near the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling detectives. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The trial ongoing.
