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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court learned call records and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and remains open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," she added.

The tribunal was told that via electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who gathered the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

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

The court heard Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period leading up to the appearance to that location, the county, in December 2024.

The court learned communications between the two accused, in last November, discussing trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their home, the defendant dispatched a text which stated: "We're currently sitting near the McCanns' house with our lights out similar to private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.