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A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most publicized investigations and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.

The jury was advised that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On that date, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months before the appearance to the village, the county, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the appearance to their residence, the defendant sent a message which expressed: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' house with our lights out resembling investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.