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A female indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court learned phone records and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and continues to be open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Is that not significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.

The tribunal was advised that by means of emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court learned the co-defendant established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time before the appearance to Rothley, the county, in December 2024.

The court was told communications between the two accused, in last November, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the trip to their residence, the defendant dispatched a message which stated: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our lights out similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with another person I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.