The court then heard from Det Con Mark Draycott, a Met Police officer attached to Operation Grange for more than a decade.
He recalled a call from Ms Wandelt, made from a mental hospital in Poland on 18 June 2022, several days after she had rung the hospital, where the McCanns worked, to speak to Mr McCann.
She was asked to email, with an eight-point list sent to police the same day – including assertions Ms Wandelt had the same eye marking as Madeleine, that she appears younger than her birth certificate states, and claiming she had been “molested” by a suspect in the disappearance.
Her case was investigated with police ruling her out of their inquiries – which Det Con Draycott told the court was a “relief” to Ms Wandelt.
But after becoming aware of the defendant’s visit to the vigil in 2024 and then Charing Cross police station to have DNA – which was later destroyed – taken, Det Con Draycott said he called Ms Wandelt to say “in no uncertain terms” that she was not Madeleine.
The conversation – which was played in court – was recorded without Det Con Draycott’s knowledge, the jury heard, and uploaded to a YouTube crime podcast with Ms Wandelt.
Ms Wandelt, 24, of Jana Kochanowskiego in Lubin, Poland, and Mrs Spragg, 61, of Caerau Court Road, Cardiff, each deny one count of stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
The trial continues.