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A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The panel was informed that via electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who collated the information, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will continue and I will prove my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the appearance to that location, the county, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering attempting to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.

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

On the evening of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting outside the McCanns' house with our lights out resembling detectives. I desired to achieve this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.