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A female accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized investigations and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.

The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who collated the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I won't give up and I will prove my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in that winter.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months leading up to the appearance to the village, that area, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which expressed: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out resembling detectives. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.