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A individual charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and information obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most publicized missing child cases and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "What if there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a life here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.

The panel was told that by means of emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On 9 October 2024, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out 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 leading up to the trip to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court heard correspondence between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' residence with our lights out similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.