Suspected Harasser Inquired: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard communication data and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most covered missing child cases and is still open.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I believe."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"
"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.
The panel was told that via electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, transmitted childhood photos 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.
The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.
On October 9th, 2024, the father answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."
The court learned Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period before the trip to that location, that area, in that winter.
The court heard communications between the two defendants, in last November, discussing attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.
"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a message which expressed: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' house with our headlights off like private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings ongoing.
