Alleged Stalker Asked: 'However What If I Am Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the vanished 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 learned communication data and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
A separate voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.
The panel was told that through emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with the police force who collated the evidence, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.
On that date, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I will prove my point."
The court was informed the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.
Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be treated respectfully in the time preceding the appearance to Rothley, that area, in last December.
The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from silverware at a dining venue.
"We must assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off like investigators. I had hoped to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
