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

A woman charged with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told call records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," the recording stated.

The panel was informed that via electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with the police force who compiled the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time preceding the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in last November, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We need to take action," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their home, the defendant transmitted a communication which stated: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' house with our lights out like detectives. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.