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A woman charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a voicemail message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a living here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The jury was told that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who collated the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the visit to that location, that area, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the trip to their residence, the defendant transmitted a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like investigators. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.