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A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

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

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.

The tribunal was told that through emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I will prove my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in December 2024.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be considered genuine in the period preceding the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We must assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' house with our lights out like investigators. I wanted to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.