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A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and is still open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.

The tribunal was informed that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On that date, the father picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in December 2024.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months before the appearance to the village, that area, in last December.

The court learned communications between the two accused, in last November, considering endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which stated: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling detectives. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.