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.

You can interpret any way you like GreatDuckCookery but you can't just make up lies that I admitted something I didn't.

Eh no I'm not on drugs I've just read the book that Kate McCann actually wrote herself!! 🙄🙄

Hi folks

Can we please remind everyone that whilst it's fine to discuss the documentary, it's not okay to speculate.

Just copying over what @michaelmumsnet said on the other thread that was removed, 'Feel free to discuss the documentary - but above all else, please bear in mind that we're a parenting site and at the centre of the story are two parents who lost a child - we'll remove posts that cross the line into blame and speculation.'

Thanks all.

On a more neutral note, someone asked upthread if the parents were still practising GPs

Apparently Kate handed in her resignation in 2008, but Gerry is now a consultant cardiologist:

www.leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/leicester-cardiology-consultant-awarded-prestigious-research-professorship/

I agree that discussing the decisions made by the McCanns and the entire group achieves nothing

Totally agree, every MM discussion I have ever been part of or witnessed as always been shrouded in gasps about how could anyone leave their children and I do totally get that, the first time, but all these years of “how could they” is just pointless!

How would the British police have handled anything differently initially? Child goes missing: most likely explanation is that they’ve wandered off. And in cases where it is actual abduction or harm, close family are suspects first because in the vast majority of cases they are responsible.

Anyone who thinks that the moment a child goes missing in the U.K., police are putting up road blocks is living in a parallel universe.

ah post deleted - I never said it !

Funny that

So stop doing it

MNHQ will police the site, not you. Get over your self importance colehawkins

@ColeHawlins you’d be better advised to stop dictating and coming up with outlandish conspiracies about posters here because you’ve actually caused more drama with your idiotic “call out”

How would the British police have handled anything differently initially?

They'd have had a PLO assigned very quickly, for one thing. Meaning they wouldn't have been left to flounder around and cook up their own plans to summon international media, publicise the colomba, tour Europe and so on.

Various decisions they made on their own (or on paid-for advice) had ramifications for the investigation.

the Netflix documentary - which we are discussing - does show that the police there handled things badly and where ill equipped to deal with it though - for example accusing them of messing up the crime scene by searching for her in the apartment!

seriously - your child is missing and you stand back and say 'no don't look under the bed or in the wardrobe - it's a crime scene'

@acciocat anyone that thinks the Portugese Police handled this case with the due care it needed is also delusional.

MNHQ will police the site, not you. Get over your self importance colehawkins

I'm just pointing out what always happens once the stupid stuff starts.

But you know, carry on, Einstein.

Fair point. I was wrong to say that.

I appreciate that, thank you.

The Portugese refused help from Scotland Yard. A child was missing why wouldn't they throw everything at it?

They couldn't look under the bed! It was a small apartment, they were educated people who supposedly thought she'd been taken from there of course you don't invite the world and his wife in to look!

Just to also add - can we draw a line under some of the arguments now, please? We'd really like to get the thread back on track.

just pointing out what happens when the stupid stuff starts

If you think that is what you are doing then look at your tone and vocabulary

How would the British police have handled anything differently initially?

Maybe they'd have closed off the apartment as a crime scene, instead of allowing too many to traipse through it? Maybe too they'd have stopped the owners from re-letting it quite so fast?

The Netflix show is a pile of propaganda. Look elsewhere.

MNHQ just seem to have a mass panic when it comes to this topic and there’s no consistency to what gets deleted.

I agree with this and it’s always really baffled me even years back when I would read unregistered.
I do get the “it’s a site for parents” point and honestly I get so sick of the same pointless how could they stuff but I’ve never seen anything on MN treated this way

I don't think a PLO would have made a difference. The family were advised by the PJ not to publicise the coloboma. Their own PR advised them not to leave after being declared suspects.The PR company they first tried to appoint when they returned to the UK advised that starting a professional PR campaign would likely be counter-productive and hence the family opted instead to appoint a PR that would run the campaign the way they wanted.
The family ignored a lot of advice. I can understand why they thought they were best placed to try to decide how to find their DD but there is nothing to suggest they would have acted on the advice of British PLO when they ignored all the other advice they were given.

I think what happened to the actual apartment was mentioned on Netflix?

Anyway, further details about that here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/2523523/Madeleine-McCann-Apartment-was-not-made-crime-scene-for-two-months.html