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A female indicted with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a voicemail 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 her co-defendant are on trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.

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

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.

The panel was told that via electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who collated the information, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

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

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant established a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in that winter.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time preceding the visit to the village, the county, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like investigators. I had hoped to do this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.