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A female charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court was told phone records and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most publicized investigations and is still unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," the message continued.

The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the appearance to Rothley, that area, in December 2024.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like detectives. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.