Suspected Stalker Inquired: 'However What If I Am Madeleine?'
A woman charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard communication data and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and is still unresolved.
'I Don't Want Money'
One voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be important for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I possess a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.
The panel was informed that through electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.
On that date, Gerry McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."
The court heard the co-defendant struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period preceding the trip to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court was told communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a restaurant.
"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the appearance to their residence, the defendant dispatched a text which expressed: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like private investigators. I desired to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.