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A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently left her a voicemail message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard phone records and information recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to know," she added.

The jury was told that via electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the call data.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' property in that area in that winter.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the period preceding the trip to that location, that area, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned near the McCanns' home with our headlights off like investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.