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

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard phone records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and continues to be unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another voicemail, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message 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 crucial for you?"

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

The jury was informed that via electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I will prove my point."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in December 2024.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period leading up to the appearance to that location, that area, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a message which expressed: "We're currently sitting near the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I wanted to do this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.