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

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told phone records and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most publicized investigations and continues to be open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that important for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.

The panel was told that via emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period leading up to the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court learned communications between the two defendants, in last November, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.