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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

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

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and remains open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

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

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a life here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.

The panel was told that by means of emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I will prove my point."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months preceding the trip to the village, that area, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' house with our lights out similar to detectives. I desired to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.