Suspected Stalker Questioned: 'However Imagine I Might Be Madeleine?'
A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and information retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unsolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another voicemail, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I believe what I feel."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.
The jury was told that through electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, a data specialist with the police force who compiled the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."
The court heard Mrs Spragg established a connection online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.
Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period leading up to the appearance to the village, the county, in December 2024.
The court heard correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The trial proceeds.
