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

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court learned phone records and evidence retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat 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 answerphone stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The tribunal was informed that through electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with the police force who compiled the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On that date, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be taken seriously in the months leading up to the trip to Rothley, the county, in last December.

The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We need to take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their residence, the defendant transmitted a communication which stated: "We find ourselves sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.