Suspected Stalker Asked: 'But Imagine I Might Be Madeleine?'

A female charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Is that not important for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The tribunal was informed that through electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who collated the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann responded to 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 answerphone stating "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 joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time before the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two accused, in last November, discussing attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant dispatched a message which expressed: "We're currently sitting near the McCanns' home with our lights out like detectives. I had hoped to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.