Suspected Harasser Inquired: 'However Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female charged with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and evidence recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most covered investigations and is still unsolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.
The jury was told that by means of emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, an investigator with law enforcement who compiled the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my claim."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a connection online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time preceding the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.
The court learned communications between the two accused, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.
"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which said: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I desired to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The trial ongoing.
