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A woman accused with harassing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a phone message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and information obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most publicized child disappearance cases and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another recorded message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the message continued.

The panel was advised that by means of emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with the police force who gathered the information, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I plan to establish my position."

The court learned Mrs Spragg established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in the county in December 2024.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had contacted through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months before the trip to the village, that area, in last December.

The court was told communications between the two accused, in November 2024, discussing attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which expressed: "We're currently sitting adjacent to the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I wanted to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.