Alleged Harasser Asked: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A female accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most publicized missing child cases and remains unresolved.
'I Don't Want Money'
Another recorded message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.
The jury was advised that via emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
The investigator, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted family friends of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On that date, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."
The court was informed the co-defendant established a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.
Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time preceding the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We need to take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the trip to their home, the defendant sent a text which expressed: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I wanted to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The trial ongoing.
