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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with harassing 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 consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I know 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 voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.

The panel was told that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

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

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

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be taken seriously in the months before the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.

The court learned communications between the two accused, in that autumn, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off like investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.