Overview

• Kate McCann told jurors she felt frightened and invaded when Julia Wandelt and Karen Spragg confronted her outside the family home in December 2024 asking for a DNA test.
• The court heard recordings from that visit, including Kate urging the pair to leave and Gerry McCann telling them to stop harassing the family.
• Prosecutor Michael Duck described a well‑planned harassment campaign from 2022 to February 2024 using emails, messages, phone calls and in‑person approaches, allegedly carried out by Wandelt with Spragg’s collaboration.
• Genetic analyses previously found no kinship, and the prosecution says it will present unequivocal scientific evidence to rule out any link between Wandelt and the McCanns.
• Wandelt, who created the iammadeleinemccann Instagram account and amassed over a million followers, denies the charges along with Spragg, and she grew visibly emotional during proceedings.