Suspected Stalker Asked: 'However What If I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female accused with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the court learned phone records and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during the past two years.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
A separate voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I feel."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to understand," she added.
The panel was informed that through electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who collated the information, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.
On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."
During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."
The court was informed the co-defendant established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in December 2024.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time preceding the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from silverware at a dining venue.
"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the visit to their residence, the defendant transmitted a text which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' house with our headlights off similar to detectives. I wanted to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
