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A woman accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and remains open.

'I Don't Want Money'

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

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Is that not important for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," the recording stated.

The tribunal was advised that through electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On that date, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time leading up to the trip to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in last November, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the appearance to their residence, the defendant dispatched a communication which expressed: "We are sat outside the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I had hoped to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case continues.