Suspected Stalker Questioned: 'But Suppose I Am Madeleine?'

A woman charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court learned phone records and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most publicized investigations and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a living here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.

The tribunal was advised that by means of emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who collated the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in that winter.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months before the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which said: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling detectives. I wanted to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.