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

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court was told call records and information recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most covered missing child cases and is still unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "What if 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 just want to discover," the message continued.

The tribunal was advised that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the information, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted family friends of the McCanns, according to the call data.

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

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

The court learned the co-defendant established a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time before the visit to that location, the county, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two individuals, in last November, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling investigators. I wanted to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.