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A female indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard call records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

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

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months preceding the appearance to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, the defendant dispatched a text which said: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I wanted to do this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.