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A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard communication data and data obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized investigations and continues to be open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another phone message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to know," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that by means of emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to family friends of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will continue and I will prove my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months before the appearance to that location, the county, in December 2024.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg sent a message which expressed: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off like investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.