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A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and evidence recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Is that not important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.

The panel was informed that via electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with the police force who compiled the information, advised the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, the father responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I will prove my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in December 2024.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be taken seriously in the period preceding the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court learned communications between the two individuals, in last November, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which said: "We find ourselves sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.