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A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard phone records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

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

'I Don't Want Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"

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

The panel was told that via emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with the police force who compiled the data, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I will prove my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months before the visit to Rothley, that area, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We must assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their residence, the defendant dispatched a communication which stated: "We're currently sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I desired to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.