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A woman accused with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The jury was told that through emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with the police force who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court heard the co-defendant established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the time leading up to the visit to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which expressed: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.