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A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.

The tribunal was advised that via electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who gathered the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I won't give up and I will prove my point."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be taken seriously in the months leading up to the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two accused, in November 2024, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant dispatched a message which stated: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' house with our lights out resembling detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.