Alleged Harasser Asked: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unsolved.
'I Don't Want Money'
One phone message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I feel."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.
The panel was told that through electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the information, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.
On that date, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."
That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."
The court learned the co-defendant struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in the county in December 2024.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the period leading up to the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in December 2024.
The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in last November, discussing endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We must make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant sent a text which stated: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling detectives. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings proceeds.
