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A woman accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned phone records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.

The panel was told that by means of emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

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

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in December 2024.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be taken seriously in the period preceding the appearance to the village, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court heard communications between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant dispatched a communication which stated: "We are sat near the McCanns' house with our lights out similar to private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.