Suspected Harasser Questioned: 'Yet What If I Am Madeleine?'

A female accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard phone records and information obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

One phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.

The tribunal was informed that by means of emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the information, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On that date, Mr McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

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

The court heard the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in that area in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be treated respectfully in the time before the trip to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which stated: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial continues.