Alleged Stalker Asked: 'However Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female indicted with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal learned call records and information retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most publicized missing child cases and is still unsolved.
'I Don't Want Money'
A separate voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I believe."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," the message continued.
The jury was informed that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.
The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.
On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I will prove my position."
The court heard the co-defendant developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be taken seriously in the period before the visit to Rothley, the county, in last December.
The court was told communications between the two accused, in that autumn, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We must assert ourselves," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the appearance to their residence, the defendant sent a message which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like investigators. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The case continues.
