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A female accused with pursuing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"

The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has persistently declared she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges accused with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, Leicester Crown Court was told communication data and data obtained from phones documented Ms Wandelt repeatedly asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout that period.

Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and is still open.

'I Am Not Seeking Money'

A separate voicemail, played in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's answerphone stated: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I am Madeleine? What then? Is that not significant for you?"

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

The panel was advised that through electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a bid to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "recollections" from a childhood with the McCanns.

The investigator, an intelligence analyst with the police force who compiled the evidence, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also reached out to close associates of the McCanns, according to the call data.

On that date, the father answered a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, declaring she had "the wrong phone."

That day Ms Wandelt left a message on Mrs McCann's answerphone saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned the co-defendant established a connection online with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' property in Leicestershire in last December.

Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had contacted through messaging service to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she should be treated respectfully in the time preceding the trip to Rothley, the county, in that winter.

The court was told message exchanges between the two individuals, in that autumn, discussing attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.

"We must make a stand," the co-defendant informed Ms Wandelt.

On the occasion of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which expressed: "We're currently sitting outside the McCanns' house with our headlights off like investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The case ongoing.