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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.

The panel was advised that through emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded 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.

The investigator, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who compiled the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months before the appearance to that location, that area, in December 2024.

The court was told message exchanges between the two accused, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which stated: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out similar to detectives. I had hoped to do this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.