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A female charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," she added.

The panel was told that by means of emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, the father picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in that winter.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months before the trip to that location, the county, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their house, the defendant transmitted a communication which said: "We are sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our lights out similar to detectives. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.