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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

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

The panel was informed that via electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I will prove my point."

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period leading up to the visit to the village, that area, in December 2024.

The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, considering attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which stated: "We find ourselves positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.