Suspected Stalker Questioned: 'However What If I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the court was told phone records and evidence recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.
The tribunal was advised that via electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate 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 compiled the information, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the call data.
On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."
That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in December 2024.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time leading up to the trip to Rothley, the county, in last December.
The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.
"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a text which said: "We're currently positioned adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The case continues.