Suspected Stalker Asked: 'However What If I Am Madeleine?'
A individual charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 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 missing child cases and is still unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another voicemail, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.
The jury was told that via emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my claim."
The court heard the co-defendant developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in that winter.
Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the period preceding the trip to Rothley, Leicestershire, in December 2024.
The court learned communications between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a dining venue.
"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a communication which said: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The trial continues.
