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A individual accused with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and information recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most covered child disappearance cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, the father responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months preceding the visit to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, discussing attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their residence, the defendant transmitted a communication which said: "We find ourselves positioned near the McCanns' house with our lights out similar to investigators. I wanted to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.