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A female accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a recorded message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another voicemail, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "What if there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.

The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, sent early photographs to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with the police force who collated the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in December 2024.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time preceding the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court heard correspondence between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the visit to their home, the defendant transmitted a communication which said: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.