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A woman accused with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.

The jury was told that via emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I plan to establish my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the months before the trip to that location, the county, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two individuals, in November 2024, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the evening of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which stated: "We are sitting outside the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark like investigators. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.