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

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told call records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

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

'I Don't Want Money'

One phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I just want to know," the recording stated.

The tribunal was told that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the information, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be treated respectfully in the time preceding the visit to the village, the county, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in last November, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their house, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We are sitting near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to investigators. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.