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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Sophie Robinson

Alleged stalker ‘urged McCanns not to think Madeleine is dead in voicemails’

Julia Wandelt sent voicemails and text messages to Kate McCann’s phone (Elizabeth Cook/PA) - (PA Archive)

The alleged stalker of Madeleine McCann’s parents repeatedly begged them for a DNA test, and urged them to think that the missing girl was not dead, in a series of voicemails heard by a jury.

Leicester Crown Court heard recordings of Julia Wandelt, 24, from Lubin in south-west Poland, audibly upset, as she left voice messages to Kate McCann last year over a period of months, at one point asking: “What if I’m her?”

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