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A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test over that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.

The tribunal was advised that via emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who gathered the evidence, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be taken seriously in the time preceding the visit to that location, that area, in December 2024.

The court heard correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a text which expressed: "We're currently positioned adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling detectives. I had hoped to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.