🔗 Share this article

A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court learned phone records and information retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.

The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in December 2024.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the period preceding the trip to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We must take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a text which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.