Accused Harasser Inquired: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the court learned communication data and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
Another voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to understand," the recording stated.
The panel was advised that via electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the call data.
On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."
During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."
The court learned the co-defendant established a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in that winter.
Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the period preceding the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.
The court was told communications between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.
"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which said: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The trial ongoing.