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A female charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a phone message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court heard call records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test over that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I just want to understand," the message continued.

The panel was advised that via electronic messages, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a bid to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who collated the data, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the call data.

On 9 October 2024, the father picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

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

The court learned the co-defendant established a connection online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted via messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time leading up to the visit to that location, that area, in last December.

The court learned communications between the two defendants, in November 2024, planning endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their house, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which expressed: "We find ourselves sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our lights out similar to private investigators. I desired to do this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.