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A woman charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a living here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.

The tribunal was advised that via emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with law enforcement who gathered the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, the father picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be treated respectfully in the time leading up to the appearance to the village, the county, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, discussing trying to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We need to take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which expressed: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off like private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.