Alleged Stalker Asked: 'However Imagine I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned call records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
A separate phone message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I believe."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.
The tribunal was told that by means of emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the call data.
On that date, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be taken seriously in the months preceding the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We have to take action," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the appearance to their home, the defendant transmitted a communication which expressed: "We're currently positioned near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like detectives. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The trial proceeds.
