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A individual indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court heard call records and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

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

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

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

The jury was told that via electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with law enforcement who collated the data, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

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

On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I will prove my point."

The court learned the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in the county in December 2024.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the period preceding the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in November 2024, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which stated: "We're currently positioned near the McCanns' home with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I wanted to do this with another person I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.