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

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and information recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.

The jury was told that through emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who compiled the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I will prove my position."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time leading up to the trip to Rothley, that area, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which expressed: "We are sat near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.