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

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Julia Wandelt - according to court testimony claims she is missing Madeleine McCann - dispute the charges

A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

Madeleine McCann photo
Madeleine McCann's disappearance has not yet been resolved

On Monday, the court heard communication data and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and continues to be open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.

The tribunal was informed that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who gathered the data, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I will prove my point."

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Kate and Gerry McCann provided testimony to the court from behind a security measure on Wednesday

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a trip to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time preceding the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard communications between the two defendants, in November 2024, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which said: "We're currently positioned adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling investigators. I desired to achieve this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.

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