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A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," the message continued.

The tribunal was informed that through emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in that winter.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months before the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court was told message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, considering attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their house, the defendant sent a message which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like detectives. I desired to do this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.