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A individual charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a voicemail message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The jury was advised that by means of emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who gathered the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

On that date, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the time before the visit to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which expressed: "We're currently sat outside the McCanns' house with our lights out like detectives. I had hoped to do this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.