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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told communication data and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.

The tribunal was told that via emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with the police force who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, the father picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

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

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period preceding the visit to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two individuals, in last November, considering endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a communication which said: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling detectives. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.