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A woman accused with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard communication data and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test over that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One phone message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I know what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.

The panel was told that via emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with the police force who compiled the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in that area in that winter.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be taken seriously in the period before the trip to the village, the county, in December 2024.

The court learned message exchanges between the two individuals, in last November, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.

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

On the occasion of the visit to their residence, the defendant sent a communication which said: "We're currently sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our lights out similar to investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.