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A female accused with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court learned call records and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am she? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.

The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with the police force who gathered the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On that date, the father responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant established a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.

Phone records demonstrated 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 taken seriously in the period before the appearance to the village, that area, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in November 2024, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We need to take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant transmitted a communication which stated: "We're currently sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out similar to investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.