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A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most covered investigations and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The tribunal was told that through electronic messages, SMS 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 vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On that date, the father responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the appearance to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which stated: "We're currently positioned near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I desired to achieve this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.