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A female indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court heard phone records and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not important for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.

The jury was informed that through electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be treated respectfully in the time preceding the appearance to that location, the county, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two individuals, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which stated: "We find ourselves sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I desired to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.