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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal learned call records and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that via electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who compiled the data, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted close associates of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On that date, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time before the trip to that location, that area, in that winter.

The court heard correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which stated: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' residence with our lights out like private investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.