Alleged Harasser Asked: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann apparently left her a voicemail message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and information recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
A separate voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.
The jury was told that via emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On that date, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."
The court learned the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.
Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the visit to that location, the county, in last December.
The court heard communications between the two defendants, in last November, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the trip to their house, the defendant transmitted a communication which stated: "We are positioned near the McCanns' home with our headlights off like investigators. I desired to accomplish this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings ongoing.
