Alleged Harasser Asked: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A female charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and remains open.
'I Don't Want Money'
One recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.
The panel was informed that via emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who collated the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, the father picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."
The court was informed the co-defendant developed a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in last December.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.
"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a message which said: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I desired to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings ongoing.
