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A female indicted with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court learned communication data and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and remains unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.

The jury was told that via electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

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

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months preceding the visit to Rothley, that area, in last December.

The court heard correspondence between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the visit to their home, the defendant transmitted a text which expressed: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling detectives. I desired to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.