Suspected Stalker Inquired: 'Yet Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman accused with harassing Kate McCann reportedly left her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most covered missing child cases and remains open.
'I Don't Want Money'
Another phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.
The tribunal was informed that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who collated the evidence, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On that date, Mr McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."
The court heard the co-defendant developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.
Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months leading up to the visit to the village, that area, in December 2024.
The court heard correspondence between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.
"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the appearance to their home, the defendant sent a communication which said: "We're currently positioned near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I wanted to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
