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A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a voicemail message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a living here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," she added.

The panel was advised that via electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the data, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months before the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We must take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their home, the defendant sent a message which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.