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A female charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that through electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

On 9 October 2024, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period before the visit to that location, that area, in December 2024.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We must take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a message which expressed: "We're currently sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like investigators. I desired to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.