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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court learned phone records and evidence obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was informed that via electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

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

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months preceding the appearance to the village, that area, in December 2024.

The court was told communications between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the night of the visit to their house, the defendant dispatched a text which said: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off like investigators. I desired to do this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.