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

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court was told call records and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

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

The jury was informed that by means of emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, sent early photographs to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the information, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be considered genuine in the time leading up to the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two accused, in last November, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a message which stated: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like detectives. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.