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A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told communication data and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.

The tribunal was informed that via emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the data, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On that date, the father picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I will prove my position."

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the visit to Rothley, that area, in December 2024.

The court heard communications between the two accused, in last November, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like investigators. I desired to achieve this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.