🔗 Share this article

A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told communication data and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

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

The jury was told that through electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the data, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my point."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app 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 the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which said: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling detectives. I desired to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.