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A female charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and remains unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.

The panel was told that through emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who compiled the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On that date, the father picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period preceding the visit to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a message which expressed: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' home with our lights out similar to investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.