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A female charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court was told communication data and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most covered investigations and remains open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.

The tribunal was informed that through emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On that date, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months leading up to the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a communication which stated: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' residence with our lights out similar to detectives. I had hoped to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.