Suspected Harasser Inquired: 'However Suppose I Am Madeleine?'
A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned call records and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
A separate voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I believe."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.
The panel was informed that through emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who collated the evidence, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.
On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."
The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the trip to the village, the county, in December 2024.
The court was told communications between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which expressed: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' house with our lights out like investigators. I desired to do this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.
