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A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and remains open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Is that not significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the message continued.

The jury was told that by means of emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court learned the co-defendant established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in the county in that winter.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period preceding the trip to the village, that area, in December 2024.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a message which said: "We are sitting near the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.