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

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

On Monday, the court was told phone records and evidence retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."

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

"I do not need money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.

The tribunal was told that through emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, informed the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in that area in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the period preceding the appearance to that location, the county, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, considering endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We need to take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their home, the defendant dispatched a text which expressed: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I wanted to do this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.