Suspected Stalker Inquired: 'But Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'

A female charged with harassing Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which asked: "suppose 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 indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard phone records and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the message continued.

The panel was informed that via emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the evidence, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months before the trip to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two accused, in that autumn, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

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

On the evening of the visit to their residence, the defendant transmitted a text which stated: "We are positioned near the McCanns' home with our headlights off like private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.