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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told call records and data recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and remains unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The panel was advised that through emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On that date, Mr McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time preceding the trip to the village, the county, in last December.

The court heard communications between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a communication which stated: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.