Alleged Stalker Asked: 'However What If I Might Be Madeleine?'
A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and remains unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I know what I believe."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I possess a life here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.
The panel was informed that via electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also contacted close associates of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.
On that date, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."
The court learned the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months before the visit to Rothley, that area, in that winter.
The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.
"We need to take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a communication which expressed: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.
