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A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

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

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

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

The jury was informed that through electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, according to the call data.

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

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

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months before the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in last November, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from silverware at a restaurant.

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

On the night of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which expressed: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I desired to do this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.