Suspected Stalker Asked: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the court was told call records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during the past two years.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and is still unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
One phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.
The panel was advised that via electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.
On that date, Mr McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will persist and I will prove my claim."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the period preceding the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.
The court heard communications between the two individuals, in last November, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the appearance to their home, the defendant sent a message which said: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
