Alleged Stalker Inquired: 'However What If I Might Be Madeleine?'
A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and remains unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
One voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I just want to understand," the recording stated.
The tribunal was told that by means of emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.
The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who gathered the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my position."
The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' property in that area in December 2024.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be taken seriously in the period preceding the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.
"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the trip to their home, the defendant dispatched a text which expressed: "We are sat near the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I desired to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.
