Alleged Harasser Asked: 'But Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'

A female indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and evidence retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to know," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, the father responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court learned the co-defendant established a connection online with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period before the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned communications between the two individuals, in last November, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their residence, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with another person I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.