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A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and remains open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.

The panel was told that by means of electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months preceding the trip to the village, the county, in that winter.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a dining venue.

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

On the occasion of the appearance to their residence, the defendant sent a message which said: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our lights out resembling private investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.