Suspected Stalker Asked: 'However What If I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the message continued.
The panel was advised that by means of emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.
On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."
The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in last December.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the months preceding the visit to that location, that area, in December 2024.
The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.
"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the visit to their residence, the defendant transmitted a communication which expressed: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' house with our lights out like detectives. I desired to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The trial proceeds.
