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A woman charged with pursuing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a recorded message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

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

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The jury was advised that through electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted close associates of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in that area in that winter.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had communicated using communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the period leading up to the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their house, the defendant sent a message which said: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our vehicle dark like detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.