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A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

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

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to understand," she added.

The tribunal was informed that through emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the call data.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I plan to establish my claim."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time before the visit to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in that autumn, considering trying to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We need to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their house, the defendant dispatched a communication which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' house with our lights out like private investigators. I desired to achieve this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case continues.