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A woman charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned phone records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and remains open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a life here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.

The panel was informed that by means of emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the information, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I won't give up and I will prove my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time leading up to the trip to the village, the county, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, considering endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their home, the defendant dispatched a communication which stated: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' residence with our lights out like investigators. I wanted to do this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.