Alleged Stalker Asked: 'Yet What If I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a voicemail message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently 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 the current year.
On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and information obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that crucial for you?"
"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.
The tribunal was advised that through emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the information, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."
The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.
Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be considered genuine in the months preceding the visit to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court was told communications between the two individuals, in November 2024, discussing trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.
"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which stated: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling detectives. I had hoped to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The case ongoing.
