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A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court was told communication data and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," she added.

The panel was informed that by means of emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who gathered the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

On that date, the father picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I will prove my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a association online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time before the visit to Rothley, the county, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

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

On the night of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.