Alleged Stalker Inquired: 'Yet Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A individual charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the court was told phone records and evidence obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and continues to be open.
'I Don't Want Money'
One phone message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I feel."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.
The tribunal was told that through emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who compiled the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On that date, the father answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my point."
The court learned Mrs Spragg established a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.
Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months preceding the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.
The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a eating establishment.
"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a text which stated: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.