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A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently left her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and information obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

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

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

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

The tribunal was informed that by means of emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the trip to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

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

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

On the occasion of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which expressed: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' house with our lights out like investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.