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A individual charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned call records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most widely reported child disappearance cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I know what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The tribunal was advised that by means of electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On that date, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my position."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be taken seriously in the time leading up to the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their house, the defendant sent a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I desired to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.