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A female charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a voicemail message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who a jury heard has persistently claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.

On Monday, the tribunal learned call records and evidence recovered from phones documented Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is considered the most widely reported child disappearance cases and continues to be open.

'I Don't Want Money'

Another recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I feel what I feel."

While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What then? Is that not important for you?"

"I don't want money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to know," she added.

The jury was informed that by means of emails, mobile messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who collated the information, told the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt also contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the phone records.

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

That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail declaring "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."

The court learned the co-defendant established a connection through digital means with Ms Wandelt before assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in that winter.

Communication data showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be treated respectfully in the months before the visit to that location, the county, in last December.

The court learned message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from utensils at a eating establishment.

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

On the night of the trip to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a communication which stated: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like private investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I never thought I would be engaged in this with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.