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A woman accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court heard communication data and evidence obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized investigations and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I just want to know," the recording stated.

The jury was informed that through emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I will prove my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time before the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.

The court heard communications between the two individuals, in last November, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.