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A female indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a recorded message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains open.

'I Don't Want Money'

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

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in that winter.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the appearance to the village, that area, in last December.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which stated: "We are sitting outside the McCanns' home with our lights out similar to investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.