{"id":185267,"date":"2025-10-08T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185267\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:47:08","slug":"kate-mccann-tells-stalking-trial-defendants-contact-with-madeleines-sister-the-final-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185267\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate McCann tells stalking trial defendant&#8217;s contact with Madeleine&#8217;s sister &#8216;the final straw&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate McCann &#8216;relieved&#8217; she was not at vigil when defendant turned up in villagepublished at 11:35 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:35 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The jury has now heard about Julia Wandelt&#8217;s journey from Poland to the McCanns&#8217; home village of Rothley in Leicestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An annual vigil was being held for Madeleine on 3 May 2024 to mark the anniversary of her disappearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By chance, the court heard, McCanns were away on the day, but Ms Wandelt approached the village priest and Kate McCann&#8217;s great-aunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked about her visit, Mrs McCann told the court: &#8220;I was totally relieved we weren&#8217;t there [at the vigil].<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s quite a hard experience having the gathering anyway. I felt I would have ended up really upset. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It would have taken away from the reason we were there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate McCann &#8216;relieved&#8217; she was not at vigil when defendant turned up in villagepublished at 11:35 BST 11:35&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-185267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}