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A woman charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not important for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The jury was advised that by means of emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the call data.

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

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

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a trip to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months preceding the appearance to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two accused, in November 2024, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, the defendant dispatched a message which expressed: "We are sitting near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I wanted to do this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.