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A female charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court learned call records and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

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

'I Don't Want Money'

One phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Is that not important for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to know," the message continued.

The panel was informed that by means of emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will continue and I will prove my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period before the visit to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from silverware at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which stated: "We are positioned near the McCanns' home with our lights out resembling private investigators. I desired to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.