Suspected Stalker Inquired: 'However Imagine I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and evidence recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and continues to be open.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "What if there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.
The jury was advised that via emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who gathered the data, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.
On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."
During that incident Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in that area in that winter.
Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be considered genuine in the period preceding the visit to that location, the county, in last December.
The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We have to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the visit to their residence, the defendant transmitted a text which expressed: "We are sitting near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
