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A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and continues to be open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was informed that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a attempt to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with the police force who collated the evidence, advised the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in December 2024.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period preceding the visit to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.

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

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, the defendant dispatched a text which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.