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

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I believe 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'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the message continued.

The panel was advised that through electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the call data.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the period leading up to the trip to Rothley, the county, in December 2024.

The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in last November, considering attempting to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant transmitted a message which expressed: "We are positioned near the McCanns' home with our headlights off like private investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.