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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The panel was informed that by means of emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the months preceding the trip to Rothley, that area, in last December.

The court heard communications between the two individuals, in last November, discussing trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which stated: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' home with our lights out resembling detectives. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.