Suspected Stalker Inquired: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly left her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the court heard phone records and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most covered missing child cases and is still unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"
"I don't want money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.
The jury was told that through electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the data, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.
On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will continue and I will prove my claim."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time before the trip to Rothley, the county, in December 2024.
The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We need to take action," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the trip to their home, the defendant sent a message which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
