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A individual indicted with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and information recovered from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate phone message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I'm her? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was told that through emails, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a attempt to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with Leicestershire Police who gathered the data, told the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."

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

The court learned the co-defendant established a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in that area in December 2024.

Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the time preceding the trip to the village, that area, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two accused, in November 2024, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We have to assert ourselves," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, the defendant dispatched a text which stated: "We are positioned near the McCanns' residence with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with another person I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.