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A female charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which questioned: "imagine 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 pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.

The jury was advised that via emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, the father responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the period preceding the appearance to Rothley, the county, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which expressed: "We are sat outside the McCanns' house with our headlights off like private investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.