Alleged Stalker Questioned: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual charged with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a voicemail message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the court heard call records and evidence retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unsolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
One voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What then? Isn't that important for you?"
"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.
The panel was informed that through electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with the police force who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On that date, Gerry McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."
During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my point."
The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time before the visit to Rothley, the county, in that winter.
The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.
"We must take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the trip to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which stated: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' home with our headlights off like private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
