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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a recorded message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently asserted she was the missing 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 was told phone records and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and is still unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.

The tribunal was told that by means of emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On that date, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

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

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in that winter.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the time preceding the visit to that location, the county, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the evening of the trip to their home, the defendant transmitted a communication which said: "We find ourselves sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.