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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court learned phone records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most publicized missing child cases and is still unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

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

The jury was told that by means of emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in that winter.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period before the trip to that location, the county, in December 2024.

The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their house, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off like investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.