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A woman charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a recorded message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court was told phone records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 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 is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

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

The panel was advised that via emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who collated the information, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a association online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in December 2024.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months preceding the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a communication which stated: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling detectives. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.