Accused Harasser Asked: 'However What If I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann apparently recorded her a recorded message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and evidence obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most publicized investigations and continues to be unsolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
A separate voicemail, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.
The tribunal was advised that through electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an investigator with law enforcement who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my claim."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months leading up to the visit to Rothley, the county, in that winter.
The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in last November, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.
"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I wanted to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.
