Alleged Harasser Inquired: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the tribunal was told communication data and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and continues to be open.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
A separate recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not important for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.
The tribunal was told that via emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.
On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."
The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months before the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court learned message exchanges between the two individuals, in last November, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We need to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling investigators. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The trial ongoing.
