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A female charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court learned call records and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another voicemail, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," the recording stated.

The panel was advised that via emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a bid to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing 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 "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months before the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court was told correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

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

On the occasion of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which expressed: "We're currently sat outside the McCanns' home with our lights out like detectives. I wanted to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.