Accused Harasser Inquired: 'However Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'

Courtroom sketch
Julia Wandelt - who a court has heard believes she is disappeared Madeleine McCann - deny the charges

A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

Madeleine McCann photo
Madeleine McCann's vanishing has never been solved

On Monday, the court learned call records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that by means of emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the data, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On that date, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

Court proceedings
Kate and Gerry McCann gave evidence to the court from protected by a security measure on Wednesday

The court was informed the co-defendant established a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in that area in that winter.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be considered genuine in the period before the trip to that location, the county, in December 2024.

The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which said: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our lights out resembling investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.

Debbie Turner
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