Alleged Stalker Asked: 'However Suppose I Am Madeleine?'
A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and is still unsolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
A separate recorded message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a small chance that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.
The panel was informed that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.
The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the evidence, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the call data.
On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."
The court learned the co-defendant established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.
Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time leading up to the visit to Rothley, the county, in December 2024.
The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a dining venue.
"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which expressed: "We are sat outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings proceeds.
