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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most covered child disappearance cases and remains open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.

The jury was told that by means of emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with the police force who compiled the information, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the visit to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a dining venue.

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

On the night of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.