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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.

The tribunal was informed that via emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time leading up to the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, discussing endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their home, the defendant sent a message which said: "We are positioned near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I had hoped to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.