Suspected Stalker Asked: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the court heard phone records and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most covered child disappearance cases and is still unsolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to understand," the recording stated.
The panel was advised that via electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."
During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I will prove my claim."
The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.
Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be treated respectfully in the period preceding the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.
The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in that autumn, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.
"We must make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which said: "We're currently sat outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I desired to do this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The case ongoing.
