Accused Stalker Questioned: 'However Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be open.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
Another recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail 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 have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.
The panel was informed that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an investigator with law enforcement who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.
On October 9th, 2024, the father responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."
The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in that winter.
The court learned communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We must make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the visit to their home, the defendant sent a message which expressed: "We find ourselves sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our lights out similar to investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.
