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A female charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a recorded message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told communication data and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.

The jury was told that through emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the information, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On 9 October 2024, the father answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

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

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period preceding the trip to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We must take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their home, the defendant sent a text which said: "We are sat outside the McCanns' residence with our lights out like private investigators. I had hoped to do this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.