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A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded 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 accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and evidence recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered child disappearance cases and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "What if there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a life here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The panel was told that by means of emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time preceding the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.

The court learned communications between the two individuals, in last November, considering attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their residence, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling detectives. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.