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A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and information recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I'm her? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

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

The jury was advised that by means of emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will continue and I will prove my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, considering attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which said: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' home with our lights out resembling private investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.