Accused Stalker Asked: 'But Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most publicized missing child cases and remains unresolved.
'I Don't Want Money'
Another recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.
The jury was informed that by means of electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the information, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.
On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I plan to establish my claim."
The court heard the co-defendant developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.
Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months before the trip to Rothley, the county, in that winter.
The court heard correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.
"We must take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant transmitted a text which expressed: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The trial ongoing.
