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A woman indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard phone records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The tribunal was told that via emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who gathered the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the time before the appearance to the village, that area, in December 2024.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their home, the defendant sent a text which stated: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out similar to private investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial continues.