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A female charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard phone records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The panel was informed that through electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who gathered the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court heard the co-defendant established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard correspondence between the two individuals, in that autumn, discussing attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which stated: "We're currently sat outside the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I desired to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.