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A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and information obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

One phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.

The panel was told that via electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with law enforcement who collated the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.

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

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be taken seriously in the period before the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which expressed: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' home with our lights out resembling investigators. I desired to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.