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A female accused with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with harassing 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 requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.

The jury was advised that by means of emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt also contacted close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in the county in that winter.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the months before the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in that autumn, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their house, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We're currently positioned near the McCanns' residence with our lights out like private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.