Stalker accused's note to pal

Never thought I would be stalking the McCanns xxx

- BY MARTIN FRICKER

TWO women accused of stalking Madeleine Mccann's parents lay in wait for them like "private investigators", a court heard.

Julia Wandelt, 24, who claimed to be missing Madeleine, and Karen Spragg, 61, angrily confronted Kate McCann in December and demanded she take a DNA test, a jury was told.

Polish national Wandelt had allegedly bombarded Kate with up to 60 phone calls and messages a day and contacted Madeleine's sister Amelie. She begged Amelie to take a DNA test to prove she was her sibling, who vanished from a holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007, aged three.

Prosecutors said Wandelt and conspiracy theorist Spragg, 61, of Cardiff, turned up at the McCann's home in Rothley, Leics.