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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The panel was advised that by means of emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the period leading up to the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a text which said: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I desired to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.