Alleged Stalker Asked: 'However Imagine I Am Madeleine?'
A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the court heard call records and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and remains unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"
"I don't want money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.
The tribunal was told that via emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who collated the data, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."
During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."
The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time before the appearance to the village, that area, in December 2024.
The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.
"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant dispatched a text which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out resembling investigators. I wanted to do this with another person I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
