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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a voicemail message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned call records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," she added.

The panel was informed that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the data, told the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the period preceding the trip to Rothley, that area, in December 2024.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which stated: "We are sat near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I wanted to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.