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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court learned communication data and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One phone message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am she? What then? Is that not important for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The jury was advised that through emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the call data.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in that winter.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be considered genuine in the months before the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in last November, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which expressed: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.