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A female accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a voicemail message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told call records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What then? Is that not important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.

The jury was told that via electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who collated the information, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months preceding the visit to Rothley, that area, in December 2024.

The court heard message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We need to take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their house, the defendant dispatched a text which said: "We are sitting near the McCanns' home with our lights out like detectives. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.