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A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a voicemail message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard phone records and evidence recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I know what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Is that not important for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the recording stated.

The tribunal was advised that by means of emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, forwarded childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the information, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

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

On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."

On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in that area in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be taken seriously in the period leading up to the visit to Rothley, the county, in last December.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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

On the night of the appearance to their home, the defendant dispatched a text which expressed: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off resembling detectives. I desired to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.