Alleged Harasser Asked: 'But Imagine I Might Be Madeleine?'

A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and evidence obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a life here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The tribunal was informed that through emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who compiled the data, told the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time preceding the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court was told message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which said: "We're currently sitting near the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.