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A female indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and remains open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to understand," the recording stated.

The jury was advised that by means of emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with the police force who gathered the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time before the trip to that location, that area, in last December.

The court learned communications between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning trying to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, the defendant transmitted a communication which said: "We're currently sat adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I wanted to do this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.