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A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told call records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive 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 expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," the recording stated.

The panel was informed that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who gathered the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time leading up to the visit to that location, the county, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which expressed: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.