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A female indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently recorded her a phone message which posed: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court was told phone records and information retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over the past two years.

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

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate phone message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I'm her? What then? Is that not significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.

The panel was advised that by means of electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who collated the information, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with close associates of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

On that date, Mr McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will persist and I will prove my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in the county in that winter.

Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time preceding the visit to Rothley, that area, in last December.

The court heard communications between the two accused, in November 2024, discussing attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.

"We need to assert ourselves," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their residence, the defendant dispatched a message which stated: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling private investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.