Suspected Stalker Questioned: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the court was told phone records and evidence obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and continues to be open.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I feel."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"
"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.
The tribunal was informed that through electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who gathered the information, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."
The court was informed the co-defendant established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in that winter.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time before the trip to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We must make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which expressed: "We're currently sat outside the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The trial ongoing.
