Accused Stalker Inquired: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently 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 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
A separate recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Is that not significant for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.
The jury was informed that via electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."
During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."
The court learned the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the visit to that location, the county, in that winter.
The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.
"We need to take action," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
