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A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and is still unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The tribunal was informed that via emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with law enforcement who gathered the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

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

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be considered genuine in the period leading up to the visit to that location, that area, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two accused, in last November, considering attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their residence, the defendant dispatched a text which stated: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off like investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.