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A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and evidence recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine was, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

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

The panel was advised that by means of electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On 9 October 2024, the father 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 stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant established a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be treated respectfully in the time preceding the trip to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which stated: "We find ourselves positioned adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like private investigators. I had hoped to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.