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A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann apparently left her a recorded message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the court was told communication data and information obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently requesting Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - when she was three years old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most widely reported investigations and remains unsolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate recorded message, shared in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I believe what I feel."

While one recording of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be important for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I just want to discover," the message continued.

The jury was advised that via emails, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, forwarded early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, a data specialist with law enforcement who collated the information, informed the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.

On that date, the father picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I won't give up and I will prove my point."

The court heard the co-defendant established a relationship through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in that area in December 2024.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had reached out through communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the months preceding the trip to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court was told correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, planning trying to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which said: "We find ourselves positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off like investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The trial ongoing.