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A female charged with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most covered child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.

The tribunal was advised that through electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the evidence, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the time preceding the trip to that location, the county, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, considering attempting to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which expressed: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling detectives. I had hoped to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.