Netflix has made a new documentary about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann which is due to be screened this month with the Oscar winning streaming service already predicting it will be a huge global success, MailOnline can reveal.
Maddie’s parents Kate and Gerry have refused to take part in the show despite numerous requests from producers Pulse Films over the past 18 months.
The couple’s ‘Tapas Seven’ holiday pals and their spokesperson and close friend Clarence Mitchell have also snubbed the venture, saying: ‘We want nothing to do with it.’
But Netflix - which scooped three awards at last month’s Oscars for Roma, which follows the life of a live-in housekeeper of a middle-class family in Mexico City - is boasting it has ‘riveting’ new interviews with key investigators as the 12th anniversary of the world’s most famous missing child cases approaches.
A source close to the movie makers said today: ‘Everyone everywhere is fascinated by the Maddie story. We would have welcomed the opportunity of working with the McCanns directly but they informed us they couldn’t and wouldn’t consider taking part while a police investigation is into their daughter’s abduction is ongoing.
‘But we have interesting new interviews with people close to the inquiry and we believe we can give justice to this unbelievably tragic story.’
Jim Gamble was the UK’s top child protection police officer in the UK and heavily involved in the initial search for Maddie.
Mr Gamble believes that police are currently pursuing vital leads and that a vital witness will eventually come forward.
He told Daily Star Online: “I genuinely believe that either a prompt to someone’s conscience or the advances in modern technology will take us to a point in my lifetime where we find out what happened to Madeleine.
“I absolutely believe that. If this involves an abductor, someone will have seen something.
“Someone will have suspected something and for personal loyalty perhaps, a relationship, or whatever else – the fact that they’ve been unsure, they’ll have kept that to themselves.
“But as time goes on, relationships change and people who’ve done things have life changing experiences that make them feel the need to tell. I think that can happen.
Madeleine McCann "could have wandered off" before her disappearance, a top detective has today claimed.
Jim Gamble, who was the UK’s most senior child protection police officer when Maddie vanished, has argued the youngster might not have been kidnapped from her room after all.
"Either someone took her – could be anyone – or in fact she wandered out that night, came to harm and her body has never been discovered.
"You’ve got to consider the hypothesis that in fact she was taken," Mr Gamble, who was heavily involved in the initial search, said.
He told Daily Star Online : "What we do know is, Madeleine is missing." It is understood the girl's family do not support this argument.
"To suggest this is almost ridiculous. There were heavy shutters which would have been impossible for a small child to open."
Madeleine was three when she went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on the evening of May 3, 2007.
