Suspected Harasser Inquired: 'However Imagine I Am Madeleine?'

A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and remains unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to understand," she added.

The tribunal was told that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the information, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, the father picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time leading up to the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court learned communications between the two defendants, in last November, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their residence, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We are sitting near the McCanns' home with our headlights off like private investigators. I had hoped to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.