Accused Stalker Asked: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be open.
'I Don't Want Money'
One voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.
The jury was informed that by means of emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."
The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time preceding the trip to that location, the county, in last December.
The court heard communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We must take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the visit to their house, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The trial ongoing.
