Netflix Madeleine McCann

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AIBU to think that any coverage of her disappearance is a good thing. I watched two episodes of the Netflix programme and think that if it were to bring her back into the spotlight, then surely it’s worthwhile? I’m on my own in that opinion here in our house.

My kids sometimes carried their special blankets with them when they got up in the night and sometimes didn’t.
Proves nothing

‘Now you’re completely reaching to be honest with your ‘tipsy holiday maker opening the shutters’ theory.’

Don’t be ridiculous.

Of course it’s possible- just as tipsy people sometimes bang on doors etc as they’re going along the street.

I’m not proposing this as the theory of what Happened. My point is that I don’t know, you don’t know and I don’t believe the mccanns know.

What I object to is their insistence on one specific theory, that she was abducted from her bed, when there is no indisputable evidence of that. I don’t want to be taken in by their PR machine.

It doesn’t mean I think they had anything to do with her disappearance though. It’s their subsequent actions I find very uncomfortable

I don't buy theory she was accidentally killed at all, wandering from apartment. Child would be crying .. walking crying... wailing mummy Etc. Scared of the dark.

When my nephew was 3 he got up in the middle of the night, his parents and siblings all asleep in their rooms, went downstairs, climbed onto a chair, got his coat and opened the front door and left. Thankfully the person who drove by and saw him standing at the bus stop called the police (and didn't murder or abduct him).

The first my sister knew of it was the police knocking at the front door at 3am. Apparently he was waiting for the bus to go and see his friend.

He wasn't scared, crying, or afraid of the dark.

Imagine being asked if you’d killed your daughter? How would expect someone to reply? If I was asked if I'd killed my daughter, I would expect I would reply with a very definite NO, had I in fact not killed her. I expect I would display anger. I expect I would resent hugely the question but perhaps expect it as part of the pre-interview talks. I don't imagine I would obfuscate and waffle.

I watched Episode 1 and I was already fed up with all the padding. It should have been a feature-length documentary rather than a series, and it shows.

I've just finished watching this. I can't believe no one was actively searching for that little girl for the first 3 years apart from the private detectives the McCanns hired. The pj were shocking. The hardest thing to swallow is if the police had been looking hard enough in the beginning there could of been a good chance Madeleine was found.

God help any body else who loses a child in a foreign country 😔

You know I've never seen a video of Madeleine before watching this, and i found the last episode so hard to watch because it brings it home that she was a "real" little girl and not just an image on a picture. I just feel so deeply sorry for her, she was just a baby..it's heartbreaking 😢

If I was asked if I'd killed my daughter, I would expect I would reply with a very definite NO, had I in fact not killed her. I expect I would display anger. I expect I would resent hugely the question but perhaps expect it as part of the pre-interview talks. I don't imagine I would obfuscate and waffle

You have absolutely no idea how you would respond.

As an HCP, I have broken the news of sudden deaths/terrible injuries to hundreds of families over the years. Reactions vary enormously and almost no one reacts in the way you might expect.

I'm very glad Mumsnet HQ have kept this thread up. People should be allowed to talk about this.

I agree, in the same way that they eventually allowed us to talk openly about Instagram and influencers. Free speech is so important.

Imagine being asked if you’d killed your daughter? How would expect someone to reply?

I've wondered this a lot and it would be the same if I was accused of anything I hadn't done. I'd fight my corner and in the case of anything to do with harming my child scream and cry and beg that someone heard me.

Just wondering what the point of Mike Oldfield check was...he didn't even look into the room!! What was the point

I thought it was very interesting that Gerry said "buy the book and find out" in an interview. To flog a book on a talk show seems bizarre to me.

Stop it that man climbing in bed with that little girl made my hairs stand on end. So creepy.

The other striking thing is no cameras around the resort.

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Imagine being asked if you’d killed your daughter? How would expect someone to reply? If I was asked if I'd killed my daughter, I would expect I would reply with a very definite NO, had I in fact not killed her. I expect I would display anger. I expect I would resent hugely the question but perhaps expect it as part of the pre-interview talks. I don't imagine I would obfuscate and waffle.

Would you have said, as Gerry did in one interview 'Find the body and prove we killed her'?

You have absolutely no idea how you would respond. I do have an idea, it is just an idea, but that's why I wrote 'expect'. But it's not about me. It's about an interview Gerry McCann gave several years after his daughter vanished (so not similar to you breaking real time news at all).This is a good article by the journalist on the Martin Smith sighting and BBC 'error'. gemmaodoherty.com/investigations/madeline-mccann/madeline-mccann-did-the-bbc-bend-the-truth/

I've often just focussed on Madeleine going missing but only now have stopped to think how they left BABY twins in the room too...god I didn't stop looking at my kids live video monitor when I was in the lounge below his bedroom in my own secure locked house until he turned 4! I can't fathom actively going a distance and leaving them.

I have no idea why Mumsnet deleted my comments. I didn't say anything untrue or incriminating.

We do not have freedom of speech in this country. People with power have the final say on everything and anyone who dares to say anything that runs counter to their narrative gets censored. I am disgusted.

The public were being told
that this potentially critical development was
just another red herring.
The BBC even went as far as to make this
claim. In a ‘Panorama’ programme broadcast
in May 2017 to mark the tenth anniversary of
Madeleine’s disappearance, presenter Richard Bilton told viewers that the Smiths had
changed their mind about seeing Gerry
McCann and now believed they had seen
someone else.
In recent weeks, I have spoken to Martin
Smith at his home in Drogheda. He told me
he continues to stand by everything he said
to police in 2007. At no point did he withdraw
his statement or change his mind about the
sighting.
He is frustrated by media claims that he
now says he was mistaken; and remains
“60-80 per cent” convinced that the man he
saw that night was Gerry McCann.
After the BBC programme was broadcast,
Martin contacted ‘Panorama’ and informed
them of their inaccuracy. But the broadcaster
failed to correct the record despite its publicservice remit.
Last month, I asked the BBC why they had
wrongly suggested the Smith sighting had
been withdrawn and if they were willing to
correct their error at this late stage.
I received a reply acknowledging that they
had indeed broadcast an inaccuracy. They
agreed to update the ‘Panorama’ programme
on their iPlayer to reflect the correction. They
say the mistake was made in good faith but
they have failed to explain how they came to
make such a fundamental error and why they
did not contact Martin Smith before they
aired the broadcast to check if their story was
correct.
Former Scotland Yard murder detective
Colin Sutton is one of a number of experienced officers who believe the Smith sighting
is one of the most important pieces of evidence available to the investigation. gemmaodoherty.com/investigations/madeline-mccann/madeline-mccann-did-the-bbc-bend-the-truth/

And .. no warning that sexual predator was on the loose.

Again all this needs review!!

So someone watching then doesn't nip in and out of an open door but decides to make a noise opening shutters. Bizarre!

Keep control in interviews and act on advice yet totally disregard the advice not to say about her eye peculiarity.

Were valuables like passports/currency left in the appartment?
I suspect that this will never be solved.

SilverySurfer he said that?!

Mark Warner said it wasn't their business to pass it on??

If I was asked if I'd killed my daughter, I would expect I would reply with a very definite NO, had I in fact not killed her. I expect I would display anger. I expect I would resent hugely the question but perhaps expect it as part of the pre-interview talks. I don't imagine I would obfuscate and waffle

And if you were asked this question as a suspect to the disappearance of your daughter do you think you’d still answer in the same manner? When the world was pointing a finger at you or your partner? When you’re being filmed while being asked it and under such scrutiny?

Another interview with Gerry states that he watched all 3 children asleep "minutes" before she was taken? This doesn't add up to me. How far was the walk back to the tapas bar exactly? If they were leaving then Why didn't they securely lock the door each time?

If the case is still unsolved how come everyone is not being re-trialled? James bulgers case was looked at again why not this one with any suspects re-questioned? Genuine question I don't understand how the system works.