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A female indicted with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court heard communication data and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered child disappearance cases and is still unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The jury was advised that via electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time preceding the trip to the village, that area, in December 2024.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in last November, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' house with our lights out like investigators. I wanted to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.