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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Isn't that crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a life here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.

The panel was told that by means of electronic messages, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the information, told the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted close associates of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period before the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two accused, in that autumn, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

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

The trial proceeds.