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A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told phone records and information recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and continues to be unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One recorded message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a living here in Poland, I just want to understand," she added.

The tribunal was informed that through emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who gathered the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court learned the co-defendant established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months before the trip to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two individuals, in November 2024, considering attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their residence, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.