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

A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a recorded message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court learned phone records and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not important for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," she added.

The jury was informed that through emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who collated the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On that date, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months preceding the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in last November, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their residence, the defendant dispatched a message which expressed: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I desired to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.