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A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly left her a phone message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.

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

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The jury was told that via emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the information, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time before the trip to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a text which expressed: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' house with our lights out resembling detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.