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

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court heard call records and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I will prove my point."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months leading up to the trip to the village, the county, in December 2024.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in last November, considering attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their residence, the defendant transmitted a communication which said: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial continues.