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A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.

The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" 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 answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the months leading up to the visit to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned communications between the two accused, in last November, considering endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a dining venue.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, the defendant dispatched a message which stated: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.