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A individual indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

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

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.

The tribunal was advised that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I will prove my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time before the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their house, the defendant sent a communication which expressed: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out similar to investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.