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A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most publicized investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I know what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Is that not significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.

The tribunal was told that via emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who compiled the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant established a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months before the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' house with our headlights off similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.