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A individual accused with stalking Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told call records and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I believe what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," she added.

The tribunal was told that through electronic messages, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the information, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I won't give up and I will prove my claim."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in last December.

Phone records demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time before the trip to the village, the county, in December 2024.

The court was told communications between the two defendants, in November 2024, considering trying to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their house, the defendant dispatched a message which expressed: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to investigators. I desired to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The trial continues.