Suspected Stalker Questioned: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and remains open.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another recorded message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.
The jury was told that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, advised the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."
The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in that winter.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months before the visit to the village, that area, in last December.
The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, discussing trying to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.
"We have to take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a text which stated: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' house with our lights out resembling investigators. I wanted to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The trial proceeds.
