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A woman charged with stalking Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who a jury heard has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal heard call records and data retrieved from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

A separate recorded message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I just want to discover," she added.

The tribunal was told that by means of electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, forwarded 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 early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with the police force who compiled the data, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any replies" from Mrs McCann.

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

On that date, Gerry McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a relationship online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time leading up to the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court learned correspondence between the two defendants, in last November, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

"We need to take action," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which expressed: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' home with our lights out like private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.