Continues the harassment trial carried out by the family of Madeleine McCann contra Julia Walksthe young Polish woman who claimed for a long time to be the small that disappeared in 2007.
This Tuesday, October 7, was the testimony of Kate McCannthe girl’s mother, which shocked – and, perhaps, moved – a jury made up of five men and seven women.
With a strong burden of anguish, the 57-year-old woman revealed in court that she was very «scared» after two «stalkers» -Wandelt (24) and Karen Spragg (61), from Cardiff, who is also accused – the boarded outside the family home.
Kate stated that she felt invaded and that he experienced a situation that he described as disturbing for his family. This testimony, as personal as it was shocking, provided a human element to the file and motivated, once again, strong media attention on the case.
«You are not Madeleine. I don’t want any of this, please stop harassing us and leave our house.»
Isolated and protected by a curtain that separated her from the public area, Kate McCann told how the accused added her several times, without her consent, to a whatsapp group in which she claimed to be Madeleine.
“I always thought that his behavior revealed that he had mental problems«said the mother of Maddieas they affectionately called her.
Kate McCann gave her moving testimony at the trial against the «fake» Madeleine. Photo: File/ReutersAccording to what the newspaper describes The Country, After incessant frustrated attempts to establish contact with her, the woman reported that it was upon learning that Wandelt had managed communicate with his daughter Amelie when he reached his limit. “It was at that point that I contacted the police,” he said.
When the prosecutor asked her about the encounter that took place at her house, Kate McCann explained: «I remember it was a weekend of very bad weather. I was taking things out of the trunk. [del auto] and I heard someone calling me. I knew it was someone behind me, but I didn’t know who it was. I got scared. «I had no idea who he was.»
That was the first time he met face to face with the imposter. «For a moment, I thought ‘who is it?’, because there were two women, and finally I realized it was Julia. I had seen a photo of her before, and I guess I had her very present in my mind because of all the communications we had had,» he said, according to The Mirror.
As she made clear in her testimony, the imposter always repeated the same phrase: «I am your daughter». And she added: «Mom called me. She asked me for a DNA test, she begged me. Anyway, I got scared and, when I realized who it was, I was very distressed. I was nervous, and it showed. I felt like I had been invaded in my own house«.
Regarding Spragg’s attitude, he assures that it was more aggressive. It was a little more along the lines of, «Don’t you want to find your daughter?» At that point, she says today, «I asked them to leave. I told them I was in a hurry and they couldn’t be on our property, so I asked them to leave.»
Then, in the room you could hear the recording that Julia Wandelt herself made of the moment in which she and her accomplice showed up at the McCann home, in December of last year, and began an unbearable harassment for Madeleine’s parents and siblings.
There Kate is heard saying: «You cause us enormous concern. Please leave.» For their part, the other two women do not stop yell at him at all times to the mother of Maddie while they knock insistently on the door when she seeks refuge inside the home.
Julia Wandelt claimed to be Madeleine McCann: it was proven that she is not. Photo: Social NetworksA second recording -according to what is said The Country– reflects the moment when Madeleine’s father, Gerry McCannarrives at the house and confronts the two women: “You are not Madeleine… I don’t want any of this, please stop harassing us and leave our house,” he is heard imploring.
Harassment, trial and the Madeleine McCann case again in focus
The trial began this Monday, October 6. Julia Wandelt is accused of having harassed Madeleine’s parents, as well as her two other children.
At the beginning of the first hearing, at the Leicester courts, prosecutor Michael Duck KC set out the accusation and the existence of unequivocal scientific evidence that they deny biological link between the young woman and Gerry and Kate McCann, the parents of the girl who disappeared in Praia de Luz, in the Portuguese Algarve, in 2007.
The prosecution maintains that the harassing behavior of the accused persecuted and distressed the McCann familyaccording to what the prosecutor’s office reported. For their part, the two women they deny the charges.
Furthermore, from the beginning, the prosecutor emphasized that: «we can make it clear at a very early stage of the trial that Julia Wandelt is Madeleine McCann«.
He trial will take its course and the judicial analysis of the evidence presented by the prosecution and the defense will be exposed. Public expectation remains about the outcome of this process and about the institutional response to the harassment complaints that motivated the case.
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The latest news about the Madeleine McCann case caused repercussions in Argentina during the last hours.
The impact of the topic, reflected in the Google trends section. Photo: capture.Local users turned to Google to search for the topic in question, as reflected in the platform’s «trends» section.
