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A woman charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court learned call records and evidence retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.

The panel was advised that via electronic messages, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the evidence, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, the father responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court heard Mrs Spragg established a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months before the appearance to that location, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the occasion of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which said: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling investigators. I desired to do this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.