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

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned phone records and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and not pretty 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: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Is that not significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I just want to understand," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that through electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will continue and I will prove my point."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in that area in December 2024.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had contacted via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the time leading up to the appearance to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard communications between the two defendants, in last November, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their house, the defendant dispatched a text which expressed: "We find ourselves sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.