{"id":153596,"date":"2025-10-30T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/153596\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:52:08","slug":"alleged-mccann-stalker-cries-and-tells-court-i-just-want-to-know-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/153596\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged McCann stalker cries and tells court ‘I just want to know who I am’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘We’re not leaving until this gets looked at’published at 12:59 GMT<\/p>\n

12:59 GMT<\/p>\n

Mr Duck KC has turned to a message co-accused Mrs Spragg sent to Miss Wandelt, which the prosecution say shows the pair were planning to confront the McCanns at their home.<\/p>\n

The court has previously heard the pair attended the address on 7 December 2024.<\/p>\n

The message, read out to jury, said: \u201cWe have to make a stand. We\u2019re not leaving until this gets looked at.”<\/p>\n

Mr Duck KC said: “This visit was being planned from some time. And you both knew you\u2019d been warned off coming to Leicester.”<\/p>\n

Miss Wandelt repeated her doubts over the warning<\/a> from the police.<\/p>\n

“Karen knew about it and you discussed it. We can see from the messages she drafted. She chose to come with you,” Mr Duck KC added.<\/p>\n

Miss Wandelt replied: “Because she wanted to help.”<\/p>\n

The prosecutor asked why they went to the address. Miss Wandelt replied that Mrs Spragg is a “friend of mine and a supporter”.<\/p>\n

Mr Duck KC asked if two people were more intimidating than one. In response, Miss Wandelt said it “depends on the context”.<\/p>\n

“The context is you standing on their drive asking them to do something they don\u2019t want to do,” Mr Duck KC said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you agree two people in those circumstances is more intimidating than one?”<\/p>\n

Miss Wandelt replied: “No, we didn\u2019t want to cause any harm.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘We’re not leaving until this gets looked at’published at 12:59 GMT 12:59 GMT Mr Duck KC has turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-153596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115463922999213646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}