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

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The panel was told that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the call data.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time before the appearance to that location, that area, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in November 2024, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a message which expressed: "We're currently positioned near the McCanns' house with our lights out resembling investigators. I wanted to do this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.