Accused Stalker Inquired: 'Yet What If I Might Be Madeleine?'

A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," she added.

The tribunal was advised that by means of emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be taken seriously in the period before the visit to that location, that area, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in that autumn, considering attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a dining venue.

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

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a message which expressed: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I desired to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.