{"id":67037,"date":"2025-10-08T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/67037\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:00:09","slug":"court-live-why-are-you-doing-this-to-me-alleged-stalker-who-claimed-to-be-madeleine-mccann-sobs-in-court-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/67037\/","title":{"rendered":"Court live: &#8216;Why are you doing this to me?&#8217; &#8211; alleged stalker who &#8216;claimed to be Madeleine McCann&#8217; sobs in court | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the full readout of the letter that was posted through the letterbox of the McCanns on 7 December 2024, the day after Julia Wandelt turned up at their front door:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear Mum [Kate],<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry for causing you so much distress, but when I saw you yesterday, my emotions were so strong. I felt a close connection to you. I don&#8217;t like seeing you upset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I want is to find out the truth. I have memories and I have gathered a lot of evidence supporting my case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that inside your heart you believe and know who I am and I am your daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why you don&#8217;t want to do a DNA test with me.I think you are scared, but whatever makes you scared, just remember that you are stronger than that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday, I heard a lot of care and love in your voice. I hope you will find a way to contact me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter was signed by &#8220;Madeleine&#8221; along with a kiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the full readout of the letter that was posted through the letterbox of the McCanns on 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-67037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}