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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard communication data and information recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.

The tribunal was advised that by means of emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with law enforcement who gathered the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my point."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months leading up to the appearance to Rothley, that area, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.