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A female charged with harassing Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a voicemail message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard phone records and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate phone message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

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

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

Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I will prove my claim."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the time before the appearance to that location, that area, in December 2024.

The court learned correspondence between the two individuals, in that autumn, discussing attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from cutlery at a dining venue.

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

On the occasion of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which stated: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.