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A woman indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned phone records and evidence retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and continues to be unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

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

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

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

The jury was informed that via emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be taken seriously in the period preceding the visit to Rothley, the county, in December 2024.

The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which said: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.