Alleged Stalker Questioned: 'However Suppose I Am Madeleine?'
A female accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and continues to be unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
Another phone message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Is that not important for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.
The panel was informed that through emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the information, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."
During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."
The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in that winter.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the time leading up to the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.
The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.
"We must take action," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a text which stated: "We are sat near the McCanns' house with our headlights off similar to detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.
