Alleged Harasser Asked: 'However Imagine I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most covered investigations and remains open.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What then? Is that not important for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I possess a living here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.
The tribunal was advised that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
Robert Jones, a data specialist with the police force who collated the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted family friends of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, the father responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I will prove my position."
The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in December 2024.
Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be considered genuine in the time leading up to the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.
The court heard communications between the two individuals, in last November, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.
"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which said: "We're currently sat outside the McCanns' home with our lights out similar to private investigators. I wanted to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
