A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard communication data and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and remains open.
'I Do Not Need Money'
One recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"
"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.
The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.
The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my claim."
The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in that winter.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be taken seriously in the period leading up to the appearance to Rothley, the county, in last December.
The court learned message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.
"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which said: "We are sitting near the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings proceeds.
