Accused Stalker Asked: 'Yet What If I Could Be Madeleine?'

A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court was told phone records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am she? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," the message continued.

The panel was advised that through emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

On 9 October 2024, the father picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in that winter.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, the defendant dispatched a communication which expressed: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.