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A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard phone records and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and is still unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Isn't that crucial for you?"

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

The panel was told that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with family friends of the McCanns, according to the call data.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be considered genuine in the time preceding the appearance to that location, that area, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in last November, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the trip to their house, the defendant dispatched a communication which said: "We're currently sat outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.