Kate McCann recalls first face-to-face encounter with defendantspublished at 11:51 BST
The prosecutor has now turned to the incident when Julia Wandelt and Karen Spragg turned up outside the McCann family home in Rothley, Leicestershire, on 7 December 2024.
We heard yesterday Mrs McCann was accosted, but “not physically”, by Ms Wandelt with a demand for a DNA test.
The court heard Mrs Spragg was present and her “behaviour was such that Kate McCann was unnerved by it”.
Mrs McCann, recalling the incident, said: “I pulled up on the drive, it was really dark, it was the weekend, we had really bad gales.
“I was opening the boot to get stuff out and I heard ‘Kate’ – it gave me a fright.”
Mrs McCann added she “pretty quickly” realised who the women were.
