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A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned call records and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

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

The tribunal was told that via emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the evidence, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

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

On that date, Mr McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I will prove my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months before the trip to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a text which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.