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A female indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and evidence recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and is still unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a small chance 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 simply desire to discover," she added.

The jury was informed that by means of emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who compiled the information, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

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

On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the trip to that location, that area, in December 2024.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, discussing attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which said: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I had hoped to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.