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A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, the court learned call records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I just want to understand," she added.

The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who compiled the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

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

On that date, Gerry McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

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

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the period before the appearance to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, considering attempting to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their house, the defendant transmitted a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I wanted to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.