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

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the message continued.

The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my position."

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in December 2024.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time before the visit to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court heard communications between the two defendants, in last November, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their residence, the defendant dispatched a communication which stated: "We are sat outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off like investigators. I desired to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.