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

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned communication data and information obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most widely reported missing child cases and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

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

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? Then what? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the message continued.

The panel was advised that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, the father picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will continue and I will prove my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the time preceding the visit to the village, that area, in last December.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their residence, the defendant sent a communication which said: "We're currently sitting near the McCanns' residence with our lights out similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with another person I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.