🔗 Share this article

A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard communication data and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

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

The tribunal was told that through electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

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

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court was informed the co-defendant established a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time leading up to the appearance to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in last November, considering attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a text which said: "We're currently sat outside the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.