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

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"

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

The panel was advised that via emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the information, advised the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted close associates of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period before the visit to the village, the county, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two individuals, in last November, discussing attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which expressed: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I wanted to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.