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

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered child disappearance cases and is still unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One recorded message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Is that not important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.

The panel was told that through electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the period preceding the trip to that location, that area, in December 2024.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in last November, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the evening of the trip to their residence, the defendant sent a text which expressed: "We're currently positioned adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our lights out resembling private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.