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A woman charged with pursuing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and data recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most publicized missing child cases and remains unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

One phone message, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am she? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.

The tribunal was advised that through electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in the county in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the period preceding the visit to the village, the county, in that winter.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their residence, the defendant dispatched a message which stated: "We are sitting near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case continues.