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A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and evidence obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and remains unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"

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

The panel was told that through emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period preceding the trip to that location, the county, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a communication which expressed: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.