Accused Stalker Asked: 'Yet What If I Might Be Madeleine?'

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

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and evidence obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.

The tribunal was told that via emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the data, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court heard the co-defendant established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the period preceding the trip to Rothley, that area, in December 2024.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I wanted to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.