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A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently recorded her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal was told communication data and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm fat and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "What if there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Isn't that important for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was advised that by means of emails, SMS messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who collated the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted close associates of the McCanns, based on the call data.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court learned the co-defendant struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time before the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court was told message exchanges between the two accused, in that autumn, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their residence, the defendant transmitted a message which expressed: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' home with our lights out similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.