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A individual indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a voicemail message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most covered child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I know what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," the message continued.

The panel was told that through emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the phone records.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant established a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be considered genuine in the time leading up to the trip to the village, the county, in December 2024.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, considering trying to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which expressed: "We find ourselves sat near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I wanted to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.