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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned call records and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and continues to be open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? Then what? Is that not important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.

The tribunal was told that via emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I will prove my claim."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in that area in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be considered genuine in the months preceding the trip to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in November 2024, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

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

On the evening of the appearance to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which stated: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off like private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.