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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the tribunal was told phone records and information retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout 2023 and 2024.

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

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone said: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that crucial for you?"

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

The tribunal was advised that via electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with Leicestershire Police who collated the information, informed the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my claim."

The court learned the co-defendant established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months before the visit to the village, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court was told communications between the two individuals, in that autumn, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a message which expressed: "We are sat adjacent to the McCanns' house with our headlights off like private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial proceeds.