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A woman accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

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

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most publicized investigations and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that through emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who gathered the data, advised the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the appearance to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court heard communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We must take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their house, the defendant dispatched a communication which said: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our lights out similar to detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.