Accused Stalker Asked: 'Yet Imagine I Am Madeleine?'

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

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court heard call records and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test over that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and continues to be unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.

The panel was informed that through electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' property in that area in December 2024.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months before the visit to the village, that area, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, considering attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which said: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.