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A female indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court heard communication data and evidence retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One phone message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.

The panel was told that via electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who collated the evidence, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in December 2024.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time preceding the visit to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the visit to their home, the defendant sent a communication which expressed: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' residence with our lights out similar to investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.