{"id":69301,"date":"2025-10-09T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/69301\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:02:08","slug":"madeleine-mccanns-sister-amelie-says-alleged-stalkers-playground-message-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/69301\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine McCann&#8217;s sister Amelie says alleged stalker&#8217;s playground message &#8216;creepy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court told of letter posted through McCanns&#8217; doorpublished at 10:35 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:35 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Heather Burman<br \/>BBC News<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yesterday, Leicester Crown Court was told of a letter Ms Wandelt wrote to Kate McCann. The jury was told it was posted through the McCanns&#8217; door the day after the face-to-face confrontation on 7 December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It read:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Dear Mum [Kate],<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry for causing you so much distress, but when I saw you yesterday, my emotions were so strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt a close connection to you. I don&#8217;t like seeing you upset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#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 class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think that inside your heart you believe and know who I am and I am your daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why you don&#8217;t want to do a DNA test with me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think you are scared, but whatever makes you scared, just remember that you are stronger than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#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 class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The letter was signed off with &#8220;Madeleine X&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Court told of letter posted through McCanns&#8217; doorpublished at 10:35 BST 10:35 BST Heather BurmanBBC News Yesterday, Leicester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-69301","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\/69301","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=69301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}