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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the message continued.

The panel was informed that through electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who compiled the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Gerry McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the period preceding the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their home, the defendant transmitted a message which expressed: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling detectives. I desired to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.