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A woman accused with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a voicemail message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard phone records and information retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized investigations and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

A separate phone message, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording stated: "Suppose there is a small chance that I am she? What then? Is that not important for you?"

"I am not seeking money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," she added.

The jury was told that via emails, text messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a resemblance to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who gathered the data, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

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

On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I will prove my point."

The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a appearance to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.

Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time preceding the visit to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two individuals, in last November, planning attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must make a stand," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which said: "We are sitting outside the McCanns' house with our headlights off similar to private investigators. I desired to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.