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A woman indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, twenty-four, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard call records and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test during that period.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is considered the most publicized investigations and is still unresolved.

'I Do Not Need Money'

Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt declaring: "I know I'm heavy and unattractive like Madeleine was, but I feel what I feel."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to know," the message continued.

The jury was informed that via electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, forwarded youth pictures to her phone in a bid to show a resemblance to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.

Robert Jones, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the data, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore contacted family friends of the McCanns, according to the call data.

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a voicemail on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg developed a association via internet with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in that winter.

Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had characterized Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period before the trip to the village, the county, in December 2024.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We have to assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which said: "We are positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off similar to detectives. I wanted to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The case proceeds.