Suspected Stalker Inquired: 'However Suppose I Am Madeleine?'

A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court was told phone records and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

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

"I am not seeking money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.

The jury was advised that by means of emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time preceding the visit to the village, the county, in December 2024.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which stated: "We are sitting near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I desired to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.