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A woman charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

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

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.

The panel was informed that through emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who collated the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I plan to establish my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in that area in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months before the appearance to the village, that area, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

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

On the occasion of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a text which stated: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off like detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.