Suspected Stalker Asked: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and is still unsolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
Another recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.
The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, sent early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, advised the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.
On that date, Gerry McCann answered a communication 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 voicemail declaring "I won't give up and I will prove my position."
The court learned the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using communication app to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the period before the trip to the village, that area, in December 2024.
The court heard communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from silverware at a dining venue.
"We have to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the appearance to their house, the defendant sent a message which stated: "We are sitting near the McCanns' house with our headlights off like private investigators. I desired to do this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
