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A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told call records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over that period.

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

'I Don't Want Money'

One phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.

The jury was informed that by means of electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months leading up to the appearance to Rothley, the county, in last December.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, discussing endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We must take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which stated: "We are sat outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.