Accused Stalker Asked: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I believe."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.
The tribunal was told that through emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I will prove my point."
The court was informed the co-defendant established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the months before the trip to the village, the county, in last December.
The court heard correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, considering attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a dining venue.
"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a text which said: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like detectives. I desired to do this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The case continues.