Suspected Harasser Inquired: 'However What If I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and continues to be open.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not important for you?"
"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.
The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the data, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.
On 9 October 2024, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my claim."
The court learned the co-defendant established a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time preceding the trip to the village, that area, in December 2024.
The court heard correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.
"We must make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like detectives. I desired to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The proceedings ongoing.
