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

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The tribunal was informed that through emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in December 2024.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months before the visit to that location, the county, in last December.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

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

On the occasion of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a text which said: "We find ourselves sat outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.