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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned phone records and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.

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

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," she added.

The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in December 2024.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time leading up to the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which stated: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.