Netflix launches new 8-part documentary about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

[misty]

They've been part of the gymn equipment in schools for years.
The children loved when the parachute was included in the gymn lesson.
I loved it too.

My children played games with it at Pre-School over 20 years ago and, as a parent volunteer, I was obliged to participate.....the children of today have so much we didn't.

[Erngath]

My children played games with it at Pre-School over 20 years ago and, as a parent volunteer, I was obliged to participate.....the children of today have so much we didn't.

I'm a post war chld. I still remember sweetie rationing ending.
Yes, they do have so much, but not the freedom we had, nor did we have the pressures of social media and having the most up-to-date of everything.

[G-Unit]

I think it may be more than odd imo. We are being asked to accept he got three basic facts wrong. He told us Kate used the key as well remember, given they also told us they had been using the open patio door for previous evenings. How could he forget that as well? Was his recollection of the previous evenings impaired as well? That's four things. Just how he could get all that wrong in such a short space of time is something I'm not prepared to accept without hard physical evidence to the contrary. Circumstantial evidence, is still evidence imo. Anyone who is ignoring that circumstantial evidence is in denial imo.

How about this bit. Russell is describing what happened after the alarm was raised and they all ran out of the Tapas;

Reply    “Yeah, ‘Some remained at the porch entry’, ‘at the’, erm, I keep saying porch, ‘at the foot of the stairs’, is probably the best one.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/RUSSELL-OBRIEN_ROGATORY.htm

Fancy repeatedly saying 'porch' instead of 'stairs'. Does that better describe the main entrance rather than the patio entrance? They would only be there if Kate had indeed used her key as Gerry first said. 

[Vertigo Swirl]

When are you people going to face facts?  The McCanns are not guilty, they are not being investigated apart from by self-appointed armchair detectives.  You are all wasting your time examining your precious discrepancies and voicing your doubts, but do carry on - you are at least providing me with a certain amount of entertainment.

[Angelo222]

I see the sun are saying the dogs alerted to cadaver,now a journalist from Portugal seems to have been given some prominence as if her word is her bond,so it must follow that this is the same.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8650740/url-madeleine-mccann-netflix-documentary-blood-praia-da-luz/

Don't know about Eddie but Kela definitely found blood even though the now defunct FSS were unable to determine what the sample consisted of.  Full marks to the doggy!

[Angelo222]

I'm afraid that's a fact... The document Gerry signed was in portuguese

It would have been read to him in English.

[Mr Gray]

It would have been read to him in English.

We don't have a record of what was read to him in english

[Angelo222]

I have always found the involvement of the Kennedys curious.  Why would the multi millionaire Mr Everest Double Glazing involve himself and his son Patrick to the extent he did.  Was he after the publicity?

[Angelo222]

We don't have a record of what was read to him in english

Unless you think he can read Portuguese I suggest you accept my post.

[Angelo222]

When are you people going to face facts?  The McCanns are not guilty, they are not being investigated apart from by self-appointed armchair detectives.  You are all wasting your time examining your precious discrepancies and voicing your doubts, but do carry on - you are at least providing me with a certain amount of entertainment.

Depends on what you think they are guilty of?

[Brietta]

I am finding it strangely riveting, despite the fact that we have heard most of it all before.

I am impressed both by the content and the excellent way in which it has been presented.  Initially I scoffed at the notion of eight programmes ... but I stand corrected.  In the knowledge that many of the facts outlined could well have benefited from a more in depth look, I now think there would have been enough information to fill many more programmes.

Among the most striking part of the documentary for me was the sense of betrayal conveyed in no uncertain terms felt by journalist Sandra Felgueiras who had believed implicitly the information given to her by the PJ which she used to great effect against Kate and Gerry only to discover that the police had lied to her and used her.

Martin Grime reiterated the information clearly and concisely that the dog alerts had to be substantiated.

Then we went back to translations when the translator of information from the FSS in Birmingham didn't bother to translate the included caveats which meant that the police got entirely the wrong end of the stick ...

It was poignant to hear Gerry McCann upholding Murat's right to the presumption of innocence in light of what he and Kate have suffered since Madeleine disappeared and I think this documentary expertly outlined the reasons for the genesis of that.

[Angelo222]

Metodo 3's Julian Peribanez sees himself as a cross between Columbo and Jim Rockford, a complete asshole in my opinion.  Him and Kennedy junior were running about Portugal illegally interfering in an official investigation. It seems the answers I was looking for are beginning to surface.

[Brietta]

. I am just loving the sour grapes on this thread.

I feel the documentary could have gone so much further. Naughty of me I know, but I did approve of the not so subtle way in which they used Amaral's statements to camera against him without any commentator having to say a word ... the film said it all.  Condemned from his own mouth?

[G-Unit]

We don't have a record of what was read to him in english

The interpreter listened to him, then told the PJ what to write down in Portuguese, She then interpreted the wtitten document back to Gerry McCann. If he heard sonething he didn't say he surely wouldn't have signed to confirm it was correct. .

[misty]

I feel the documentary could have gone so much further. Naughty of me I know, but I did approve of the not so subtle way in which they used Amaral's statements to camera against him without any commentator having to say a word ... the film said it all.  Condemned from his own mouth?

As I've already posted elsewhere - stitched up like a kipper imo. I wonder how the contract was worded.......