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A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "What if there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

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

The tribunal was informed that via electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, sent early photographs to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who collated the evidence, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time leading up to the trip to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in last November, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' home with our lights out like private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.