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A individual charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told call records and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most covered child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."

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

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was advised that via electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be taken seriously in the months preceding the appearance to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court heard communications between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the night of the appearance to their residence, the defendant transmitted a message which stated: "We're currently positioned near the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to detectives. I had hoped to do this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.