Alleged Stalker Inquired: 'However What If I Am Madeleine?'
A female charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently left her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the court learned communication data and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and is still unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am she? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"
"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," she added.
The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my claim."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in December 2024.
Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via communication app to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period before the trip to Rothley, that area, in December 2024.
The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in last November, considering endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.
"We must make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a text which said: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' home with our lights out similar to detectives. I had hoped to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
