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A woman indicted with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized investigations and remains open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.

The tribunal was informed that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, the father answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be taken seriously in the months leading up to the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in last November, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which stated: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling investigators. I desired to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.