A woman charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and is still open.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
One phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.
The panel was advised that by means of electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."
During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my claim."
The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the appearance to the village, the county, in last December.
The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We have to take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a text which stated: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I desired to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
