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A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned call records and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.

The jury was informed that via electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who collated the evidence, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court learned the co-defendant established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period before the appearance to the village, that area, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We must assert ourselves," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.