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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One phone message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I know what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am she? Then what? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.

The tribunal was informed that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who collated the information, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, the father picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the months before the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, discussing attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.

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

On the night of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which stated: "We're currently sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out like investigators. I desired to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.