Suspected Stalker Questioned: 'However Imagine I Am Madeleine?'
A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a recorded message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
One phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Is that not important for you?"
"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," she added.
The tribunal was informed that by means of emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an investigator with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will continue and I will prove my point."
The court heard the co-defendant established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' property in the county in that winter.
Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period before the visit to Rothley, the county, in that winter.
The court heard correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We must make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which said: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings proceeds.