🔗 Share this article

A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told communication data and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive 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: "What if there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.

The tribunal was informed that through emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months before the visit to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, considering attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a message which stated: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I wanted to achieve this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.