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A woman charged with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a voicemail message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and continues to be open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The jury was told that via emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

On 9 October 2024, the father 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 message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time before the appearance to that location, the county, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the evening of the appearance to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We're currently sitting adjacent to the McCanns' house with our lights out similar to investigators. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.