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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I just want to know," the recording stated.

The tribunal was advised that by means of electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who compiled the data, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the time before the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which stated: "We are sat outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.