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A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard call records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and continues to be unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," she added.

The panel was advised that via emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the visit to that location, that area, in December 2024.

The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.