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A woman charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard call records and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and remains unsolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another voicemail, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The tribunal was advised that through emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who gathered the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, the father answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period before the appearance to Rothley, that area, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from silverware at a dining venue.

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

On the evening of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which expressed: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' home with our lights out like private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.