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A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and continues to be open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the message continued.

The panel was told that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who collated the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On that date, Mr McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be taken seriously in the period leading up to the visit to that location, that area, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We need to take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which said: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out resembling investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.