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A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned phone records and information obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and is still open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

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

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the message continued.

The panel was told that through electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who gathered the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I will prove my point."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months before the trip to Rothley, the county, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, considering endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We are sat near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.