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A individual indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court learned communication data and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a living here in Poland, I just want to understand," the recording stated.

The tribunal was advised that via electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the information, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

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

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in the county in December 2024.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months before the trip to that location, the county, in December 2024.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, discussing trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

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

On the evening of the appearance to their residence, the defendant sent a communication which said: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.