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A female indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a recorded message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court learned communication data and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

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

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.

The tribunal was told that via emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the information, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, the father responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

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

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months before the visit to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

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

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

On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant dispatched a message which expressed: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our lights out resembling detectives. I desired to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.