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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a recorded message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and data recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

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 is still unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," she added.

The tribunal was advised that by means of emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who collated the evidence, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Gerry McCann answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the months preceding the visit to Rothley, that area, in last December.

The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the evening of the trip to their residence, the defendant transmitted a message which expressed: "We are positioned near the McCanns' home with our headlights off like detectives. I had hoped to do this with another person I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.