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A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court was told phone records and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "What if there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with the police force who compiled the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

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

The court learned the co-defendant developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period preceding the trip to that location, that area, in December 2024.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in last November, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We must assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which said: "We're currently positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.