Accused Stalker Questioned: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and is still open.
'I Don't Want Money'
One recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.
The panel was informed that through electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.
The investigator, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.
On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I will prove my point."
The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.
Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months leading up to the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.
The court learned message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a dining venue.
"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which said: "We find ourselves positioned near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The trial continues.
