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A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a recorded message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial indicted with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told phone records and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate phone message, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt stating: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I believe what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "What if there is a slight possibility that I am she? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"

"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was told that via electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who compiled the data, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.

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

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

During that incident Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court was informed Mrs Spragg struck up a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period preceding the appearance to the village, Leicestershire, in December 2024.

The court learned message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

"We must assert ourselves," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which stated: "We find ourselves positioned near the McCanns' home with our lights out resembling private investigators. I wanted to achieve this with another person I didn't imagine I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings proceeds.