Pa Media / BBCThe perceived campaign of a woman who believes she is missing Madeleine McCann has had no real impact on Gerry and Kate McaniN, her defense team has argued with the defense team.
Addressing the trial at Leicester Crown Court, representing Polish National Julia Wandelt, said her client only approached the McCanns as a last resort.
He said: “It’s a tragedy in this case that the McCanns have had to live with the interference in their lives since 2007, but when you look at the impact of his achievements.”
Both Miss Wandelt and Co-accused Karen Spragg were accused of floating Gerry and Kate McCann.
Mr. Price said the first contact made by his client at Glenfield Hospital and Gruy in June 2022 did not affect the McCanns, and was made in a genuine hope to answer “complex questions about his background”.
He said Miss Wandelt contacted 23 different organizations including the UK, Poland, and Portugal including the police and Interpol, Madeline’s Missing WebSite.
He said: “When she contacted the McCanns, she tried everything. This was a woman at the end of her tether.”
He argued that the suffering of the Police of Metropolitan Police did not take his visit seriously, with his client ordering within 24 hours of contact with them.
“He just wanted the certainty of a DNA test, it could have been done, it wasn’t done,” he said.
There was no concern the police returned to the McCanns when they learned of Miss Wind Sand Wandelt’s claims through a routine operations meeting, said Mr Price.
After messaging the direct, the price of MR said that there is no “malevolence” and that all the numbers he contacted are available to the public after being leaked by the Portuguese Police Siles.
He said: “We do not see, we, any threat of swearing, no swearing, nothing of that type.
“It’s not bad. It’s the confused behavior of a very sad and sad young woman.”
Still MediaWhen he visited the Public Vigil for Madeleine McCann in May 2024, he was “respectful” he visited a police station, “not the behavior of a woman who has done something wrong”.
When Kate McCann raised the police after her visit to Rotley, two years in the year, as there was no formal action by Mr.
Before the visit to McCann’s home in December 2024, the victims “kept things going” he said.
He argued that when confronted by the McCanns at their family home with Co-Defendant Karen Spragg, he did not swear “and when Mrs Spregge swore he raised his voice” as if he said he would not speak like that”.
He added that “half an hour later” the victims were “waiting for them to be cleaned” and “in a car going to a party”.
Mr Price said: “It’s not like it’s something that’s ruined their livelihood.”
He said that Missellt’s actions were not for any personal gain, except to know his identity.
“He was a man who was completely taken advantage of. And what did he get out of it? All he got out of it was a period of custody and a price order.
‘The Missing Madeleine’
Karen Spragge’s Spruggor Simon Russell Flint KC said his client’s “sole aim is to find out if the Missing Moteleine McCann, the Missing Moteleine McCann,.
After arriving following Miss WandElt’s appearance in a youtube broadcast in September 2024, she “supports” “no” “encouragement”, said Mr. Russell Flint.
He said: “If you ask how a child disappears, it’s like thin air, are you a conspiracy theorist?”
He said Mrs Spragg’s “intention was not to cause the McCanns to suffer” and when she was involved in 2024, there was no DNA evidence to disprove her theory.
Mr. Russell Flint said: “Not until the arrest of Julia Wandelt, almost three years after she was first questioned and months after others were questioned.
“Before anyone could stand up and say with absolute certainty and say Julia Wandelt is not Madeleine Mcann, and that’s a real irony in this case.
“This is the very test that Julia Wandelt, Karen Spragg and others have been begging to be done.”
Joe Giddens – WPA Pool / Getty ImagesMr Russell Flint said it was “clear” his client was in no danger to the McCanns, as he was only arrested when Miss Wandelt flew back to the UK in February.
Julia Wandelt, 24, of Jana Kochanowskiego in Lubin, Poland, and Karen Spragg, 61, of Cariff Road caused the Mccanns great alarm and distress between June 2022 and February 2025.
The trial continues.


