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A individual charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

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

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and remains open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I believe."

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

"I am not seeking money, I have a life here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The jury was advised that through emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Gerry McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period before the visit to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, discussing trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We need to take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their house, the defendant sent a message which said: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like detectives. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.