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A female charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told communication data and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Is that not important for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.

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

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in that winter.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the period before the visit to the village, that area, in December 2024.

The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We must take action," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which expressed: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling investigators. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.