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

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court heard call records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not important for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The tribunal was advised that via electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the call data.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the period before the trip to Rothley, the county, in December 2024.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant sent a message which expressed: "We're currently sitting near the McCanns' house with our lights out similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.