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A woman charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.

The panel was told that by means of emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time before the visit to that location, the county, in that winter.

The court heard communications between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which stated: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.