Alleged Harasser Asked: 'But What If I Might Be Madeleine?'

A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned phone records and data obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized investigations and is still open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.

The panel was told that through emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time before the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We need to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.