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A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

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

On Monday, the court learned communication data and data obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most publicized investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.

The tribunal was advised that through emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

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

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the time before the visit to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which said: "We find ourselves sitting outside the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling investigators. I wanted to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.