Alleged Stalker Inquired: 'But Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and information obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains open.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
A separate voicemail, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that important for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.
The jury was told that via emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also communicated with family friends of the McCanns, according to the call data.
On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."
During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I will prove my point."
The court heard the co-defendant developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.
Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the period before the visit to that location, the county, in December 2024.
The court heard communications between the two defendants, in last November, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.
"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which expressed: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.
