Suspected Stalker Questioned: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently left her a recorded message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and is still unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Is that not significant for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.
The tribunal was told that through electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life 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 additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I will prove my position."
The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in the county in December 2024.
Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time leading up to the trip to Rothley, the county, in last December.
The court was told communications between the two accused, in last November, considering attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a dining venue.
"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which stated: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The trial continues.
