Accused Harasser Asked: 'However What If I Could Be Madeleine?'

A woman indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently left her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and data recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was advised that through electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned the co-defendant established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time before the appearance to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.

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

On the occasion of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a communication which expressed: "We are sitting outside the McCanns' house with our lights out similar to private investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.