Suspected Stalker Inquired: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'

A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "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 monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am she? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.

The panel was advised that via electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with law enforcement who collated the information, told the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in last December.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months preceding the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in last November, considering attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant sent a message which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.