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A female charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has repeatedly declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told call records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate voicemail, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The tribunal was advised that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who compiled the data, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period leading up to the trip to that location, that area, in December 2024.

The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in that autumn, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the appearance to their house, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling investigators. I desired to achieve this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case continues.