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A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

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

'I Do Not Need Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Is that not important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that via emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who collated the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

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

The court learned the co-defendant developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the period preceding the trip to that location, the county, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which said: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling investigators. I desired to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.