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A female accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which posed: "suppose 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 charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court heard phone records and evidence obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The jury was advised that via electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the data, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On that date, Gerry McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period leading up to the trip to the village, the county, in that winter.

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

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their home, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.