Alleged Stalker Asked: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.
'I Don't Want Money'
A separate phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Isn't that important for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.
The panel was told that via electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.
The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann answered a 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 answerphone saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."
The court learned the co-defendant developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in that winter.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period before the trip to Rothley, Leicestershire, in December 2024.
The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.
"We need to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the trip to their house, the defendant sent a text which said: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
