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A individual accused with harassing Kate McCann allegedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is among the most publicized child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

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

The jury was told that through emails, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my point."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months before the appearance to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two defendants, in last November, considering attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which said: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' home with our lights out like private investigators. I wanted to achieve this with someone else I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.