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

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court learned communication data and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that crucial for you?"

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

The jury was advised that through electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."

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

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time leading up to the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their home, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We're currently sitting adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.