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

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and remains unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"

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

The tribunal was advised that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On 9 October 2024, the father picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will continue and I will prove my point."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months before the trip to Rothley, the county, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which expressed: "We are sitting outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case continues.