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A individual indicted with stalking Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard communication data and data recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and remains open.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another voicemail, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I believe."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? Then what? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," she added.

The tribunal was told that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who gathered the evidence, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with family friends of the McCanns, according to the phone records.

On October 9th, 2024, the father picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my position."

The court learned the co-defendant developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted via communication app to Mrs McCann to state the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the period before the visit to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court heard correspondence between the two accused, in November 2024, planning attempting to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from silverware at a restaurant.

"We need to make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which stated: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off like investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.