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

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am she? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"

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

The jury was informed that via electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

On that date, Mr McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I will prove my point."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months before the trip to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two accused, in that autumn, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their home, the defendant sent a communication which stated: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our lights out similar to private investigators. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.