Alleged Stalker Asked: 'However What If I Might Be Madeleine?'
A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and remains unsolved.
'I Don't Want Money'
A separate phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not important for you?"
"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.
The panel was advised that through electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.
Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period preceding the appearance to the village, the county, in last December.
The court heard correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.
"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a text which stated: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off like private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
