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A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a phone message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told call records and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and is still unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One phone message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The panel was informed that via emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

On that date, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period before the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, considering attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant dispatched a communication which stated: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.