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A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly left her a phone message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard phone records and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

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

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," she added.

The jury was advised that via emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I plan to establish my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months before the visit to that location, that area, in December 2024.

The court heard communications between the two individuals, in last November, discussing attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which stated: "We are sitting outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.