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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court heard communication data and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.

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

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that through electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in that area in December 2024.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be considered genuine in the period before the visit to the village, the county, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, the defendant sent a message which said: "We find ourselves positioned near the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.