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A woman indicted with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court heard communication data and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to understand," the message continued.

The tribunal was told that via emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the information, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the appearance to that location, that area, in last December.

The court heard correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, discussing endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a restaurant.

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

On the night of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.