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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told call records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"

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

The tribunal was advised that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months before the visit to the village, that area, in last December.

The court learned communications between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant dispatched a communication which expressed: "We're currently sat outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark similar to detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.