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A female indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently recorded her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned phone records and data obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate recorded message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I understand I'm fat and plain like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"

"I do not need money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.

The tribunal was informed that by means of electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a biological test, transmitted youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "seemed to lack any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, as per the call data.

On that date, Mr McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will persist and I will prove my point."

The court heard the co-defendant established a association online with Ms Wandelt before accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' property in the county in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she should be considered genuine in the months preceding the visit to that location, the county, in last December.

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

"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the evening of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg sent a communication which stated: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case continues.