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A woman charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and information retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.

The jury was told that via electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with the police force who collated the data, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I will prove my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the period preceding the appearance to that location, the county, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We must assert ourselves," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling detectives. I wanted to do this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.