Suspected Harasser Inquired: 'However What If I Am Madeleine?'

A woman indicted with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told call records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most covered investigations and is still unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

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

"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," the recording stated.

The jury was informed that via emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who collated the data, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

On that date, Mr McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will continue and I plan to establish my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated through messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months before the trip to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.