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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told communication data and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and continues to be open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.

The panel was advised that by means of emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Mr McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period leading up to the trip to that location, the county, in December 2024.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a communication which said: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.