A Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann left the missing girl’s mother voicemails recalling the night she was “abducted”, a court heard.

Julia Wandelt, 24, claimed to remember Kate McCann telling her she “loved me and would find me” on the night the child went missing.

In lengthy voicemails, she insisted she also had memories of family barbecues with Mrs McCann and her husband Gerry, as well as feeding Madeleine’s younger siblings in a high chair.

Ms Wandelt denies stalking Mr and Mrs McCann, as well as their other two children, between June 2022 and February this year.

Jurors at Leicester Crown Court, on Monday, heard voicemails which had been left on Mrs McCann’s phone by Ms Wandelt.

Madeleine was three years old when she went missing from her family’s apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007 as her parents dined at a nearby tapas bar.

Ms Wandelt left numerous messages detailing claims of why she thought she was Madeleine.

Speaking about the night the child went missing, she said: “I remember how you hugged me.

“I remember how you came to the room before [the] abduction happened, rubbing my head, saying you loved me and you would find me. I beg you to call me.”

Prosecutors allege Ms Wandelt, from Lubin in south-west Poland, peddled the “myth” that she was Madeleine while stalking her parents by sending emails, making phone calls and turning up at their address.

The court heard messages shared between Ms Wandelt and Karen Spragg, who is also accused of stalking, in which they planned to raid the bins outside the McCanns’s home to retrieve DNA samples.

“We can steal their garbage [laughing], bin will be full of it,” one message said.

Ms Spragg, 61, of Caerau, Cardiff, then contacted a separate friend and said: “We are sat outside the McCann home like private investigators… never thought I would be stalking the McCanns.”

In other messages left to Mrs McCann, Ms Wandelt said: “I remember how I was feeding my younger brother in the kitchen. I was using a spoon to feed him.”

She also claimed to have memories of playing Ring a Ring o’ Roses with other children and the McCanns.

“I remember doing a barbecue with you and Gerry,” said Ms Wandelt. “I remember I was playing with other kids, there was a tree next to us.”

“I cry when I hear your voice. I think you even don’t listen to these messages. I don’t know what I can do. I’m not crazy. Please try to take me seriously.

“I feel this connection, I don’t know how to explain it. You are the only person who can help me. What if I’m her?”

The court previously heard Ms Wandelt bombarded Mrs McCann with up to 60 calls and messages in a day throughout April 2024.

Michael Duck KC, prosecuting, said that from June 2022, Ms Wandelt began trying to persuade “anybody prepared to listen” that she was Madeleine.

Ms Wandelt and Ms Spragg deny the stalking charges.

The trial continues.