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A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," she added.

The tribunal was advised that via emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court learned the co-defendant established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

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

On the evening of the appearance to their home, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We find ourselves sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I desired to achieve this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.