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A female charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard communication data and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Is that not significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," the message continued.

The jury was advised that via emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will continue and I will prove my point."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period preceding the trip to the village, the county, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two accused, in November 2024, discussing endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which stated: "We are sitting near the McCanns' house with our lights out resembling private investigators. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.