Suspected Harasser Asked: 'Yet Imagine I Might Be Madeleine?'

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

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and evidence obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a life here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.

The panel was informed that by means of emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

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

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time preceding the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which said: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I desired to do this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.