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

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned call records and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One recorded message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What happens next? Isn't that crucial for you?"

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

The tribunal was told that through emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who compiled the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the period preceding the trip to that location, that area, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the night of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to investigators. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.