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A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard call records and evidence obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Isn't that important for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.

The tribunal was told that by means of emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will continue and I will prove my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in that winter.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the period leading up to the visit to that location, the county, in December 2024.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, discussing attempting to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which said: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like investigators. I desired to achieve this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.