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A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.

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

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not important for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.

The panel was told that by means of emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who collated the evidence, told the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in last December.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the period before the visit to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two accused, in that autumn, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their home, the defendant dispatched a text which expressed: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' house with our headlights off similar to investigators. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.