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A female indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am she? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.

The jury was informed that through electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, told the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the call data.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a association online with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the period leading up to the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in November 2024, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which said: "We find ourselves sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.