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A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most publicized investigations and is still unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.

The panel was informed that through electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who compiled the information, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends 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, declaring she had "a wrong number."

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

The court learned the co-defendant developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time preceding the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their residence, the defendant dispatched a communication which expressed: "We're currently positioned near the McCanns' house with our lights out like investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.