Accused Stalker Questioned: 'However Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be open.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I possess a living here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.
The jury was advised that via electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.
The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the data, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.
On October 9th, 2024, the father picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."
The court was informed the co-defendant established a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in that winter.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period preceding the trip to the village, the county, in last December.
The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from silverware at a dining venue.
"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off like detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The trial ongoing.
