‘I’m not a liar, I’m not loopy’
The jury was advised Wandelt referred to as and messaged Kate McCann’s cellphone on greater than 60 events on sooner or later in April final yr, together with about her alleged recollections of the woman’s abduction.
In a single message, the court docket heard, Wandelt stated she remembered Kate McCann on the evening of Madeleine’s abduction “rubbing my head and stated, ‘I like you’ and you’ll discover me”.
Kate and Gerry McCann in 2017, 10 years after their daughter disappeared.Credit score: AP
A voicemail left on Kate McCann’s cellphone was performed to the jury wherein Wandelt stated: “You don’t have anything to lose, if I’m her then everyone needs to be OK but when I’m not, as you most likely suppose, then I’ll depart you alone.
“I do know my accent is Polish as a result of I stay right here, I do know I look fats and I do know I’m not fairly like Madeleine was previously, however I do know what I do know, I do know what I bear in mind.
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“Please simply give me an opportunity, I’m not a liar, I’m not loopy; I simply need to know the reality. Name me or message me or no matter please.”
Duck advised the trial: “Considered one of many tragic penalties for Madeleine’s mother and father, Kate and Gerry McCann, has been their fixed lack of ability to flee the glare of publicity that got here with that tragedy.
“The eye they’ve acquired has not at all times been compassionate, typically removed from it.
“There stays a bunch of people who proceed to fail to acknowledge their plight and perpetuate conspiracy theories.”
The prosecutor stated Wandelt has claimed to have “flashbacks” from hypnosis periods, together with one reminiscence of spoon-feeding Madeleine’s youthful brother.
Wandelt is alleged to have referred to as Kate McCann “mommy” in textual content messages and recalled taking part in Ring-a-Rosie within the again backyard of the household’s house in Rothley, Leicestershire.
The court docket heard Wandelt made contact with Madeleine’s youthful sister, advised her there have been “many issues” she might bear in mind, and despatched her pictures in an try and “persuade” her that they “had been by some means associated”.
Wandelt is claimed to have additionally claimed to be two different lacking women.
Lacking woman claims
The court docket heard that Wandelt contacted Lacking Years In the past, a charity which helps with historic lacking individual instances, in January or February 2023 claiming she was Inga Gehricke, who went lacking in Germany aged 5 in 2009.
“As with Madeleine McCann, Julia Wandelt was precluded from being a sensible candidate by advantage of her age and apparent variations,” the prosecutor stated.
Inga Gehricke, who went lacking in Germany at age 5 in 2009.Credit score: AP
After these claims had been dismissed, Wandelt claimed to be one other lacking woman referred to as Acacia Bishop from Utah, the jury was advised.
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The listening to was paused for 10 minutes when Wandelt began crying and went to the again of the dock after Duck stated: “Can we at this very early stage within the trial make this place clear – that Julia Wandelt isn’t Madeleine McCann.”
Wandelt appeared alongside Karen Spragg, 61, of Caerau, Cardiff. Each girls deny stalking. The trial continues.
The Telegraph, London
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