Accused Stalker Asked: 'Yet Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and remains open.
'I Don't Want Money'
Another recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I believe."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.
The jury was informed that via emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.
The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.
On that date, Mr McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."
The court was informed the co-defendant developed a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months preceding the appearance to that location, that area, in that winter.
The court learned communications between the two accused, in November 2024, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which said: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings ongoing.
