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A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned call records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.

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

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," the recording stated.

The jury was informed that via emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who compiled the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months leading up to the trip to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two individuals, in last November, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their home, the defendant transmitted a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.