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A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court heard communication data and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Is that not important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.

The panel was informed that via emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I will prove my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months before the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court heard communications between the two individuals, in last November, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their house, the defendant sent a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling investigators. I wanted to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial continues.