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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a recorded message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

One phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The panel was advised that through emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

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

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period leading up to the appearance to Rothley, the county, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their residence, the defendant transmitted a message which expressed: "We are positioned near the McCanns' house with our headlights off like private investigators. I desired to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.