Alleged Stalker Asked: 'However What If I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard phone records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most publicized investigations and is still unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
A separate voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a slight possibility that I'm her? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"
"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.
The tribunal was told that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with the police force who compiled the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."
The court learned the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.
Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the months leading up to the visit to Rothley, that area, in last December.
The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We must take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the visit to their residence, the defendant sent a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.
