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

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

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and evidence retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.

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

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Is that not important for you?"

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

The panel was advised that through electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who gathered the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On that date, Mr McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months preceding the visit to Rothley, that area, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling investigators. I desired to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.