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A woman accused with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a recorded message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told call records and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most covered child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.

The tribunal was told that through emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a phone call 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 answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months preceding the visit to Rothley, the county, in December 2024.

The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from silverware at a dining venue.

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

On the night of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which said: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out similar to investigators. I desired to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.