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A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and data recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 2023 and 2024.

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

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am she? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to know," the recording stated.

The tribunal was advised that by means of electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who collated the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I will prove my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in last December.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be considered genuine in the months preceding the visit to the village, the county, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We need to take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their house, the defendant sent a communication which stated: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' home with our lights out like investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.