Alleged Harasser Asked: 'However Imagine I Might Be Madeleine?'
A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.
'I Don't Want Money'
Another recorded message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am she? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.
The jury was informed that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the data, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.
On 9 October 2024, the father answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."
The court heard the co-defendant established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in December 2024.
Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months before the appearance to Rothley, the county, in December 2024.
The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in last November, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from silverware at a restaurant.
"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the appearance to their residence, the defendant sent a communication which stated: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to detectives. I desired to accomplish this with another person I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
