Alleged Harasser Questioned: 'However Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a voicemail message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that important for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," the recording stated.
The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."
The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.
Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time preceding the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.
The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, considering attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.
"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which expressed: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off like detectives. I desired to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
