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A woman charged with stalking Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and data recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.

The panel was told that via electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who gathered the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period leading up to the trip to that location, that area, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

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

On the evening of the visit to their home, the defendant dispatched a text which stated: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark like investigators. I wanted to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.