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A individual indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a voicemail message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has repeatedly claimed she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court heard communication data and evidence retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is among the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another recorded message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the message continued.

The jury was told that through emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who gathered the information, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, Mr McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

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

The court was informed the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in December 2024.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period preceding the trip to that location, Leicestershire, in last December.

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

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which said: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' home with our lights out resembling private investigators. I desired to achieve this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings ongoing.