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A female charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly left her a phone message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned call records and data recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over the past two years.

Madeleine's case in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is among the most covered child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

One phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Is that not important for you?"

"I don't want money, I possess a existence here in Poland, I just want to understand," she added.

The panel was advised that via emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a bid to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who compiled the data, advised the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.

On that date, Gerry McCann answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "incorrect contact information."

That day Ms Wandelt deposited a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I will persist and I plan to establish my claim."

The court was informed the co-defendant struck up a association via internet with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to express the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the period preceding the visit to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, discussing endeavoring to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from silverware at a dining venue.

"We must take action," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the appearance to their house, the defendant dispatched a communication which expressed: "We're currently sat outside the McCanns' house with our lights out resembling investigators. I had hoped to do this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.