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A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.

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

Robert Jones, an investigator with law enforcement who compiled the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the evening of the trip to their residence, the defendant transmitted a message which expressed: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.