🔗 Share this article

A female charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court learned phone records and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most covered missing child cases and continues to be open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a small chance that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.

The panel was told that via electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the information, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period preceding the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a message which said: "We are sitting near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.