Suspected Stalker Questioned: 'However Imagine I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned call records and evidence obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and is still open.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Is that not significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.
The jury was advised that via emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the call data.
On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I plan to establish my position."
The court learned the co-defendant developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period preceding the trip to the village, that area, in that winter.
The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the trip to their house, the defendant transmitted a message which stated: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The case continues.
