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A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and evidence retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most publicized investigations and is still unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.

The panel was advised that through electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On that date, Gerry McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time preceding the appearance to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard communications between the two accused, in last November, discussing attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their house, the defendant dispatched a message which expressed: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I wanted to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.