Suspected Stalker Asked: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the tribunal was told communication data and information recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
Another voicemail, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not important for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.
The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."
That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my point."
The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months preceding the visit to that location, that area, in last December.
The court learned communications between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We have to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the visit to their house, the defendant sent a communication which stated: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I desired to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The trial continues.