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A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court heard call records and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and is still open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

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

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

The panel was informed that via electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a bid to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On that date, Gerry McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a association online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be considered genuine in the period before the visit to the village, that area, in December 2024.

The court was told message exchanges between the two accused, in that autumn, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which expressed: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our lights out like private investigators. I had hoped to do this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.