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A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a voicemail message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

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

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most publicized investigations and is still open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another recorded message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.

The tribunal was advised that via emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited 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 association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time leading up to the appearance to that location, that area, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a dining venue.

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

On the evening of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a communication which said: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like detectives. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.