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A individual charged with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a recorded message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court learned phone records and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test during the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most widely reported investigations and continues to be unsolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

Another recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Suppose there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What then? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the message continued.

The tribunal was advised that via electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who compiled the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally contacted family friends of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On 9 October 2024, Gerry McCann responded to a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's answerphone stating "I won't give up and I will prove my position."

The court heard the co-defendant developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in that winter.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using communication app to Mrs McCann to express the media had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be considered genuine in the months before the trip to that location, the county, in December 2024.

The court heard communications between the two accused, in last November, considering attempting to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from silverware at a eating establishment.

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant told Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their house, the defendant transmitted a message which stated: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our lights out like investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.