Suspected Harasser Inquired: 'However What If I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal was told communication data and evidence obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and remains unsolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a small chance that I am she? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"
"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the message continued.
The tribunal was advised that through emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I will prove my position."
The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.
Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be taken seriously in the months preceding the visit to that location, that area, in December 2024.
The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.
"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We find ourselves sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The trial proceeds.
