Alleged Stalker Questioned: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'

A woman charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the message continued.

The panel was told that through electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On that date, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' property in the county in that winter.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period leading up to the appearance to Rothley, that area, in December 2024.

The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

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

On the night of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which expressed: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I wanted to achieve this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.