The woman accused of stalking Kate McCann and her family screamed “why are you doing this to me?” at the mother of the missing girl as she gave evidence. As the prosecution finished asking Mrs McCann questions, Julia Wandelt sobbed loudly and shouted “why are you doing this to me?”
Officers escorted her out of the dock at Leicester Crown Court as she continued to cry uncontrollably. Moments earlier Mrs McCann how outlined her distress after Wandelt and co-defendant Karen Spragg turned up on her doorstep.
She told Michael Duck KC: “I pulled up on the drive… it was really dark, it was the weekend, we had the gales.
“I was opening the boot to get something out and I heard someone say ‘Kate’.
“I knew it was someone behind me, but I didn’t know who it was. I had pictures of her (Wandelt), plus she was quite vivid in my mind anyway because of the communications.
“She called me mum I think, she was asking for a DNA test, ‘why wont you do a DNA test?’ and pleading with me.”
Asked by Mr Duck how she felt to be “greeted in that manner on your driveway”, Mrs McCann said: “I got a fright anyway; when I realised who it was I felt quite distressed.
“Then they followed me, I remember trying to close the door and Julia trying to put her hands out to stop me closing the door.”
Referring to Karen Spragg, who had attended the McCann home address along with Julia Wandelt, Kate McCann said: “I would say she was slightly more aggressive. She was a bit more kind of… ‘don’t you want to find your daughter?”‘
Asked by prosecution counsel Michael Duck KC if she wanted the women there, Mrs McCann said no.
Mr Duck said: “Did you make that plain?”
Mrs McCann replied: “I did. I told them to leave. I told them I was distressed.”
She said she phoned her husband Gerry when she managed to get inside her home and lock the door and told him what had happened.
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