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A female charged with stalking Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and evidence obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and is still unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.

The tribunal was told that via emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who collated the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

On that date, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time preceding the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their home, the defendant dispatched a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.