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A woman charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a voicemail message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and evidence retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and is still open.

'I Don't Want Money'

One phone message, shared in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

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

The tribunal was advised that through electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with the police force who collated the data, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I will prove my claim."

The court heard the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months before the appearance to the village, the county, in December 2024.

The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

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

On the occasion of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a message which expressed: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.