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A woman indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal learned call records and data obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that by means of emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who gathered the data, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I will prove my point."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months preceding the trip to the village, that area, in December 2024.

The court was told communications between the two accused, in last November, considering endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant dispatched a communication which said: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case continues.