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A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, the tribunal was told communication data and evidence obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.

The tribunal was advised that through electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On that date, Gerry McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in December 2024.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the time before the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in last November, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their home, the defendant transmitted a text which stated: "We're currently positioned adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off like detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.