Alleged Harasser Asked: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the court learned call records and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I feel."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What then? Is that not important for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.
The tribunal was advised that via emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, a data specialist with the police force who compiled the evidence, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On that date, the father picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will continue and I will prove my claim."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be considered genuine in the period preceding the appearance to the village, that area, in last December.
The court heard communications between the two defendants, in last November, considering attempting to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.
"We must take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which said: "We are sitting near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings proceeds.
