Accused Stalker Inquired: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the court was told call records and information retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over that period.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still open.
'I Don't Want Money'
Another voicemail, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.
The tribunal was advised that through electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, a data specialist with the police force who collated the data, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.
On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."
During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."
The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in that winter.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the months before the appearance to Rothley, that area, in that winter.
The court heard communications between the two defendants, in last November, discussing endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.
"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which stated: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like investigators. I wanted to do this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The trial ongoing.
