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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told call records and evidence retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.

The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant established a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time before the appearance to Rothley, that area, in December 2024.

The court heard correspondence between the two defendants, in November 2024, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We must take action," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which stated: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to detectives. I wanted to achieve this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.