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A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and is still unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a life here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The panel was told that through electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who compiled the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the period before the appearance to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard communications between the two accused, in last November, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant dispatched a message which stated: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark similar to private investigators. I wanted to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.