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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

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

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"

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

The panel was advised that by means of emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, told the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will continue and I will prove my point."

The court was informed the co-defendant established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months before the visit to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two accused, in that autumn, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the appearance to their residence, the defendant sent a communication which stated: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.