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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned communication data and data recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? Then what? Isn't that important for you?"

"I do not need money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I just want to understand," she added.

The jury was told that through emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann picked up a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I will continue and I plan to establish my position."

The court was informed the co-defendant established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be taken seriously in the months preceding the visit to Rothley, Leicestershire, in last December.

The court heard communications between the two accused, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which expressed: "We are sat outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial continues.