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A female indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I know what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The jury was informed that through electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be treated respectfully in the period preceding the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their home, the defendant dispatched a text which stated: "We're currently sitting near the McCanns' residence with our lights out resembling private investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.