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A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which asked: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, the court heard call records and information obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered investigations and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I realize I'm fat and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.

The jury was advised that via electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

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

Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On October 9th, 2024, the father answered a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my position."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in last December.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months before the trip to the village, the county, in December 2024.

The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, planning trying to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the appearance to their house, the defendant transmitted a message which said: "We are sat near the McCanns' residence with our lights out resembling investigators. I desired to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.