Suspected Stalker Asked: 'Yet Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over that period.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be open.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Is that not important for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.
The jury was advised that through electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who collated the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, the father picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will continue and I will prove my claim."
The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in last December.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months preceding the trip to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from silverware at a restaurant.
"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling investigators. I desired to do this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The proceedings ongoing.
