Alleged Stalker Inquired: 'Yet Imagine I Am Madeleine?'

A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and remains open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am she? What then? Isn't that important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The panel was informed that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the time preceding the visit to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their house, the defendant dispatched a text which said: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case continues.