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A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

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

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and is still unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," the recording stated.

The panel was informed that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be taken seriously in the months preceding the visit to that location, that area, in last December.

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

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a message which stated: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.