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A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court learned phone records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and is still unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The panel was informed that through emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On that date, the father picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in that area in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period preceding the visit to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard communications between the two individuals, in last November, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their residence, the defendant dispatched a communication which stated: "We find ourselves positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling detectives. I had hoped to do this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.