Accused Stalker Asked: 'However Imagine I Am Madeleine?'
A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and is still unsolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
A separate phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.
The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who collated the evidence, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted family friends of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."
During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."
The court heard the co-defendant struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period leading up to the trip to Rothley, that area, in last December.
The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.
"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a text which stated: "We're currently sitting near the McCanns' home with our headlights off like detectives. I wanted to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.
