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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told call records and evidence obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and is still unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I know what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The tribunal was informed that by means of electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who compiled the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

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

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court heard the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in the county in that winter.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months before the trip to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two accused, in last November, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We need to take action," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their house, the defendant dispatched a text which expressed: "We are sat near the McCanns' home with our lights out like detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.