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

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and data obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One recorded message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Isn't that significant for you?"

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

The jury was advised that by means of emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the data, told the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

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

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

The court learned the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the time preceding the appearance to Rothley, the county, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two individuals, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

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

On the night of the trip to their home, the defendant dispatched a message which said: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' house with our lights out resembling investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.