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A woman accused with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the disappeared 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 court learned communication data and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that by means of emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the data, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the time before the trip to Rothley, that area, in December 2024.

The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering endeavoring 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 occasion of the appearance to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We're currently positioned adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.