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A woman charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and data obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and is still unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.

The panel was told that via electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will continue and I will prove my point."

The court was informed the co-defendant established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in the county in December 2024.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be taken seriously in the time preceding the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, the defendant sent a message which stated: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our lights out resembling detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.