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

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court was told phone records and information retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Is that not important 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 advised that via emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who collated the information, told the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period preceding the trip to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court heard correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a eating establishment.

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

On the evening of the trip to their home, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' residence with our lights out like detectives. I desired to do this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial continues.