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

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

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered child disappearance cases and remains open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I just want to understand," she added.

The panel was informed that through electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, the father picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in that area in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months before the visit to the village, that area, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing attempting to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which said: "We are sitting near the McCanns' house with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I wanted to achieve this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.