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A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal was told communication data and data obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during that period.

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

'I Do Not Need Money'

One recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The jury was informed that through emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the information, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a association online with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the period preceding the appearance to Rothley, the county, in December 2024.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, considering endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant sent a message which stated: "We are sat outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.