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A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly left her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court was told communication data and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

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

The panel was informed that via electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with the police force who compiled the information, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be considered genuine in the months preceding the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which stated: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like detectives. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.