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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly left her a phone message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and continues to be unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Is that not significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.

The jury was told that by means of electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time preceding the visit to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We are sitting outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I desired to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.