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A woman charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly left her a recorded message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.

The jury was advised that via emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I plan to establish my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data showed 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 ought to be considered genuine in the time preceding the appearance to Rothley, that area, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which said: "We find ourselves sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out like detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.