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A woman indicted with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most covered investigations and is still unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.

The panel was informed that by means of electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with the police force who compiled the information, informed the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time leading up to the appearance to that location, that area, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.

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

On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant transmitted a text which said: "We find ourselves sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.