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A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, the court was told call records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered child disappearance cases and remains open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.

The panel was advised that via emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who compiled the data, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Mr McCann 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 voicemail stating "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court was informed the co-defendant established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in December 2024.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the period preceding the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their residence, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to investigators. I desired to do this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.