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A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly left her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.

The tribunal was advised that via emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with the police force who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted close associates of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On that date, Mr McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

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

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a trip to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period leading up to the visit to the village, that area, in December 2024.

The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in that autumn, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the night of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which said: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' house with our lights out like detectives. I wanted to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial continues.