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A individual indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," the message continued.

The jury was told that by means of emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who collated the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Gerry McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

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

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

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be treated respectfully in the time before the visit to the village, the county, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must take action," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which stated: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.