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A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I believe what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the message continued.

The panel was told that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with the police force who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will continue and I will prove my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in last December.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be taken seriously in the months preceding the trip to that location, the county, in December 2024.

The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in last November, considering attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which stated: "We find ourselves sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our lights out resembling private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.