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A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a recorded message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned call records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I believe what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a small chance that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The tribunal was informed that by means of emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent early photographs to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who collated the data, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant established a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be taken seriously in the time leading up to the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their house, the defendant dispatched a message which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.