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A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and data recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and is still open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," the message continued.

The jury was informed that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I will prove my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the period leading up to the appearance to the village, the county, in December 2024.

The court was told message exchanges between the two accused, in that autumn, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the night of the trip to their home, the defendant dispatched a message which expressed: "We are sat near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I desired to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.