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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court heard communication data and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I feel."

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

"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," the recording stated.

The jury was told that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with law enforcement who collated the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the visit to that location, that area, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in last November, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

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

On the evening of the visit to their home, the defendant dispatched a text which expressed: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.