Suspected Harasser Asked: 'However Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female charged with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned phone records and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
A separate recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to understand," she added.
The jury was informed that by means of emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.
On that date, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my claim."
The court learned the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the time preceding the appearance to the village, the county, in December 2024.
The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the trip to their house, the defendant dispatched a message which expressed: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I desired to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
