A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a recorded message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the court was told call records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and is still open.
'I Do Not Need Money'
Another phone message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I believe."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "What if there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.
The jury was advised that via electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with the police force who compiled the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to acquaintances 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, stating she had "incorrect contact information."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I won't give up and I will prove my position."
The court heard Mrs Spragg established a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in December 2024.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the trip to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.
The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, considering endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.
"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which said: "We find ourselves positioned near the McCanns' residence with our lights out like detectives. I desired to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings proceeds.
